Bryan Appleyard

A stunning work of art: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One reviewed

Christopher McQuarrie has brilliantly refined and intensified the action-movie genre

Nobody does the generic hero character better: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. ©2023 Paramount Pictures. All Right Reserved

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