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What ‘Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One’ Says About the State of Action Movies. Plus, Checking in on ‘Hijack’ and ‘Full Circle.’

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Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1

"We have a necrotic dying culture. I said it," he says of his time on the jukebox at Commonwealth in 2003. "I invented the fucking makana he's smoking gift from true detective because it was me the first time they started digitizing jukeboxes and I was just like plotting a goddamn ICBM lunch." The film is based on an idea that cinema can either be the saving grace of cinema itself or the thing that is planted inside of it to destroy it from within.

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