Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
First screened in June 2025

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Director: Christopher McQuarrie. Cast: Tom Cruise, Esai Morales, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Angela Bassett, Greg Tarzan Davis, Pom Klementieff, Rolf Saxon, Lucy Tulugarjuk, Henry Czerny, Shea Whigham, Charles Parnell, Nick Offerman, Holt McCallany, Janet McTeer, Tramell Tillman, Hannah Waddingham, Katy O'Brian, Tomás Paredes, Stephen Oyoung, Paul Bullion, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Cary Elwes. Screenplay: Erik Jendresen and Christopher McQuarrie.

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Photo © 2025 Paramount Pictures/Skydance Media

In Brief: Tom battles A.I. and the realities of age and death. Start is a slog. Middle stuns. Too many ends to count.

VOR: ④  I'm possibly overvaluing this, but I appreciate a summer action epic that tries to say something. And Cruise's star narrative just gets weirder.

Grade: B–

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