‘F1’ and ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’
Two massive stars fight for relevance in two of this summer’s blockbusters: Brad Pitt in Joseph Kosinski’s F1, and Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Both have things to hide, and things to prove. In this episode of Hard Truths, Elena and Manuela discuss the cinematic merits, perverse pleasures, and unavoidable offence of these two morally compromised, big-budget tentpoles.
Angelica Jade Bastién’s article, “Brad Pitt Is Fooling You”, in Vulture.
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