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  Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 2015

  ★★★★ Watched 15 Jul 2018

  No set piece reaches the level of the Dubai tower in Ghost Protocol, even though the danger factor is matched in the opening where Tom Cruise hangs onto the outside of an airplane after it has taken off--a scene that, for the insanity of the stunt, underwhelms just a bit. Likewise, no scene is as suspenseful as the computer room scene in the original MI, and none has as many separate things happening either at once or in sequence as…

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  Mission: Impossible III 2006

  ★★½ Watched 14 Jul 2018

  Unfortunately, MI3 has more in common with Woo's film than De Palma's. No set pieces here, like in Woo's MI2, come anywhere near the creativity and investment of those in MI. In fact, this has no real set pieces and skips over the main moments of potential action or suspense. The story is a simple hero-bad guy outmaneuvering contest like II rather than the complexity of the original. The idea of Ethan balancing his personal life and job is decent and Philip Seymour Hoffman is great, but criminally underused. The twist is cheap and unnecessary.

Popular reviews

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  Phantom Thread 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Jun 2018

  Phantom Thread finds a rare thing in cinema: a woman in charge. Anderson has not been afraid to put women in charge in his movies like during one particularly good scene in a bathroom in The Master. Phantom Thread is a full on assault of this. Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is the master and Alma (Vicky Krieps) the muse on the surface. Reynolds acts like the master too. When they first meet, he asserts his dominance with bravado, teasing her…

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  Get Out 2017

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 05 Jan 2018

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.