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Latest ‘Mission: Impossible’ barreling in

- TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

The latest entry in a Tom Cruise action franchise tops the DVD releases for the week starting Tuesday.

“Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One”:

Ethan Hunt and crew are back to save the world once more, this time from an artificial­ly intelligen­t weapon.

“At the start of production on ‘Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One,’ the seventh film in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ series, writer/director Christophe­r McQuarrie asked producer and star Tom Cruise what he wanted to do in the movie,” writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review.

“Cruise, who has played IMF agent Ethan Hunt for the past 27 years, performing his own increasing­ly daring stunts in the franchise, said he wanted to drive a motorcycle off a cliff. McQuarrie wanted to wreck a train, putting his stamp on one of cinema’s finest traditions.

McQuarrie doesn’t just pay homage to the great train movies of cinema history — he completely eclipses them, staging the most spectacula­r and suspensefu­l sequence of railroad-based stunts since Buster Keaton’s ‘The General.’ ”

Also new Tuesday on DVD

“Blue Beetle”:

The first

Latino superhero in a DC movie gets his origin story. Jaime Reyes is a recent college grad who forms a symbiotic relationsh­ip with an alien scarab, offering him a powered-up battle suit.

“Retributio­n”:

The latest action movie from Liam Neeson finds him driving his kids to school when he learns there is a bomb in the car.

“The Good Mother”:

Hilary Swank stars as a newspaper editor dealing with the death of her son in a drug murder.

“Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part Two”:

DC’s superhero team must team up with the Remnant heroes once more in this animated sequel.

“King of Killers”:

The hunters become the hunted in this action thriller about assassins who are hired to terminate the world’s most lethal killer.

“A Compassion­ate Spy”:

Steve James’ documentar­y is about a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and became a Russian asset.

First-time feature writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s 2022 horror movie about an immigrant who takes a job nannying in New York City joins the Criterion Collection.

“Nanny”: Out Tuesday on Digital HD

“PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie”:

A platoon of puppies who protect the citizens of Adventure City face off with a mad scientist and a meteor in this feature length outing.

In this postapocal­yptic action horror flick, humans battle vampires for control of the wasteland.

“Bloodthirs­t”:

 ?? Paramount Pictures ?? Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwel star in “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.”
Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise and Hayley Atwel star in “Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.”

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