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Tom Cruise has yet another plane to catch in The Final Reckoning. (Paramount)
Any new Mission flick is the start of a long relationship for me, and as with 2023’s Dead Reckoning, my estimation of the new one went up on a second viewing. It’s still a goddamn mess, though.
My Washington City Paper review of Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, the eighth and perhaps-but-also-perhaps-not climactic MIssion is here.
When you stare into The Abyss, etc., etc. (Paramount)
When you watch 2018’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout, you can see the shot wherein Tom Cruise breaks his ankle leaping across London rooftops.
When you listen to our new Pop Culture Happy Hour on Mission: Impossible — The Final Recknoning, you can hear the moment when I suffer an aneurysm. It’s when my friends Aisha Harris and Linda Holmes once again compare these films to the Fast & Furious movies. And they are like those, in the sense that the 1969 Rolling Stones and circa 2012 Aerosmith are both rock bands.
Sun’s out, guns out. Jon Bernthal and Ben Affleck shoot ‘em up.
A vestigial tale to an 8.5-year-old movie where Ben Affleck plays an autistic book-cooker and throat-puncher. That’s The Accountant 2.
In Warfare, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (center) plays Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, one the film’s co-directors. (A24)
My review of Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland’s extraordinary film Warfare is here.
What drag, this unicorn death. My review is in your Washington City Paper.
I miss when David Ayer made real movies. My Village Voice review of Sabotage from 2013 is lost to time, but my NPR pieces on Ayer’s Fury, Suicide Squad, and Bright are all readily available. It’s a bummer that the guy who wrote Training Day and wrote and directed End of Watch is now doing shlock like A Working Man — which I reviewed in your Washington Post.
Black Bag boasts a killer cast of trained killers.
My City Paper review of Black Bag, the second David Koepp-Steven Soderbergh collaboration this young year, is here. Good movie!
No cherry blossom trees were harmed in the production of this major motion picture (Disney)
My apologies to Shira Haas and to Tim Blake Nelson, both of whom were cut for space my Washington City Paper review of the extremely busy, half-successful Captain America: Brave New World.
