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All Mission: Impossible Movies, Ranked By Tomatometer

“Hey, Tom. Paramount here. Yes, the studio. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create a new summer franchise out of a 30-year-old TV show, and have it virtually improve with each sequel over 20 years…”

And so Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt has halo-jumped, rock-climbed, motorcycle-duelled, and face mask-revealed his way across dozens of countries to unravel all manner of world threats in the Mission: Impossible movies. He’s had help along the way, featuring a cast of series veterans, like Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg, and occasional players like Jeremy Renner and Paula Patton. Hunt hasn’t had too much help from the IMF, though, considering how many times they think their star employee has gone rogue.

A trademark for most of Mission: Impossible ‘s lifespan was bringing in a new director for each entry, ranging from John Woo to Brad Bird to Brian De Palma, giving each entry a unique spin. But Since Rogue Nation , Cruise (who also produces) has found a perfect collaborator in Christopher McQuarrie. He was the first to direct two M:I s in a row, with Fallout raking in the series’ best box office and critical marks. And McQuarrie is directing the next two films: Dead Reckoning – Part One releases this Friday, with Part Two  out June 28, 2024.

Before we see what death-defying hijinks they get into next (we don’t think Ethan’s been to the moon yet), we’re ranking all Mission: Impossible movies by Tomatometer! — Alex Vo

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) 96%

Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) 97%

Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015) 94%

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) 93%

Mission: Impossible III (2006) 71%

Mission: Impossible (1996) 66%

Mission: Impossible II (2000) 56%

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Mission Impossible 6 review: invigorating sequel that reinforces Tom Cruise as Hollywood's best action man

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Towards the end of the rip-roaring new Mission: Impossible film, Julia (Michelle Monaghan) asks how her husband (from whom she has long been separated) is getting on. “Same old Ethan,” comes the reply. Ethan Hunt ( Tom Cruise ), she learns, is still as busy as ever saving the world. On his latest assignment, with three nuclear weapons potentially set to explode within 72 hours, he doesn’t have much time to spare for his loved ones. In a hostage situation, Ethan will always try to protect the life of the individual captive even if that means putting the rest of humanity at risk. On occasion, he can appear very sentimental indeed but the women in his life have long ago realised that, no, he is not going to bring them breakfast in bed.

Tom Cruise doesn’t wear a top hat or look like Fred Astaire, but the pleasure in the Mission: Impossible franchise is very similar to that given by the best Astaire musicals. “Either the camera dances or I do,” Astaire famously proclaimed. He refused to rely on clever editing to drive his routines. Cruise’s Ethan has a similar down and dirty approach. The Mission: Impossible films don’t skimp on the special effects but one of their defining and most exhilarating traits is that they seem rooted in realism. If Cruise jumps off a plane, we will see him doing so in full frame and the sequence will be filmed in a single shot. If he is wrestling his main antagonist on top of a cliff, the camera will pull back so we can see for ourselves that there isn’t any scaffolding or soft landing area, just a vertiginous drop below him.

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Almost all the stunts and action sequences here are superbly choreographed. They need to be because the storyline is even flimsier here than in writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s previous feature, Rogue Nation . Under scrutiny, the plot structure is just as likely to collapse as the make-believe chamber here in which Ethan and his IMF (Impossible Missions Force) colleagues conduct an interrogation of a rogue scientist, somehow convincing him that he is in a real army hospital.

Ethan can’t stay put in one country for long. For no discernible reason, he is in Belfast when he receives a hollowed-out copy of Homer’s The Odyssey containing a secret recording offering his next mission… should he care to take it. Terrorist group The Apostles have been busy spreading smallpox in Kashmir and now its demented anarchist members have an even more fiendish plan involving stolen plutonium. Inspired by their imprisoned leader, Solomon Lane (the still sneering and gimlet-eyed Sean Harris), they work on the basis that global peace can only be achieved through “great suffering”. By blowing up large tracts of the globe or exposing it to pestilence, they hope to bring humanity together in its wretchedness and to put in place a new world order (or something like that).

Henry Cavill is used to being the leading man. He has played Clark Kent several times and generally takes top billing. Here, however, he is strictly second fiddle to Cruise. In this double act, he is the straight man. Cruise gets the best lines, while Cavill is left to scowl and plot mischief in the passenger seat or to lurk in the background. He plays an American assassin who works for CIA boss Erica Sloane (Angela Bassett). She has instructed him to take over Ethan’s mission. Ethan’s own boss Hunley (Alec Baldwin) is in a power struggle with Sloane.

This is one of those films in which heroes and villains are continually blurred. We are never sure who is trying to kill Ethan, who is trying to help him and who is simply there for the money. The only two people he can completely trust are his faithful sidekicks Luther (Ving Rhames, who has been in the series since the start) and the hypochondriacal Brit, Benji (Simon Pegg, who again gets many of the film’s best comic scenes). Rebecca Ferguson reappears as secret agent Ilsa Faust. It’s not clear at first whether she is there as his love interest or as his nemesis, or whether she is on a completely different mission of her own. New to the cast is the White Widow (Vanessa Kirby), a very glamorous and untrustworthy socialite who combines hosting charity dinners with arms dealing. She is the dishonest broker between the security forces, the scientists and the terrorists.

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The plotting is a bit of an afterthought. What matters is the action. Highlights here include a stand-off in an underground car park, a brutal fight sequence in the gents, a riveting car and motorbike chase through the maze-like streets of Paris that puts old Steve McQueen movies to shame, a harum-scarum foot chase that takes Cruise across rooftops and bridges from St Paul’s Cathedral to Tate Modern (and reportedly resulted in him breaking his ankle), the obligatory parachute and skydiving scenes, a helicopter battle and a clifftop climax.

Cruise, Hollywood’s most durable star, has had a couple of recent screen disappointments, among them the half-baked horror movie The Mummy and the surprisingly dour Jack Reacher: Never Go Back . However, Mission: Impossible – Fallout reinforces his credentials as the Peter Pan-like action man who never seems to age or to stay still. He tackles his role with such relish that he leaves everyone else trailing in his wake. As soon as that familiar music is heard on the soundtrack, he is off like a whirling dervish set loose. From the film’s opening to its end credits, he hardly stops moving for an instant. The film takes its breakneck tempo from him. That is why it makes such invigorating but exhausting viewing.

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'Art Of Betrayal': A History Of MI6 That Reads Like A Spy Novel

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For an organization that's supposed to be "secret," the British Secret Service, MI6, is awfully famous. MI6 agents turned novelists include Ian Fleming, Graham Greene and John LeCarre, and their books — together with the film franchise starring Fleming's James Bond — have made the intelligence organization a global brand.

In a new book, Gordon Corera, security correspondent for the BBC, writes of a young MI6 operative on a mission in a remote village in Africa. The chief of a tribe greets him with a wide smile and says, "Hello, Mr. Bond." As a former head of MI6 tells Corera, "I doubt if he would have received such a warm welcome if he'd been from the Belgian Secret Service."

MI6's reputation may be based on novels, movies and myths, but Corera's book, The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6, reveals the truth behind the legends. Corera tells the story of MI6 from its defining period in the Cold War through to these times of terrorism and cyber rivalry.

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"I think it's one of the most interesting ways of looking at the history of MI6 in the last 50, 60 years. ... On the one hand, one end of the spectrum, you've got James Bond, this slightly fantastical character, gung-ho above all, all the talk about the license to kill, who exists in a very simple world where you know the good guys from the bad guys. ... And then on the other hand, you have George Smiley, John LeCarre's creation, who's much more a character of grays, ambiguity and subtlety.

"James Bond is all about doing things. John Smiley is all about understanding things. Now, in a successful secret service, those two things work together in a kind of creative tension. But one of the things I think you can look at, the British Secret Service in its history at MI6, and you can see how at times one or the other has predominated, has had more influence, and sometimes with disastrous results."

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"I wanted to try and ... not just talk about the failures and the betrayals but also reflect some of the successes. ... There were two Russian intelligence officers who were turned and who basically became agents for MI6 and, in one case, MI6 and the CIA. So one of them was Oleg Penkovsky, who was a Russian military intelligence officer in the early Cold War. ... It's very interesting, because it's one of those cases where you can point to the way in which intelligence made a difference to policy. His intelligence made it right up to the Oval Office, to President Kennedy, helped shape some of his decision-makings and helped him stand firm against Khrushchev at various points because of what he was getting from Penkovsky."

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"I've been covering this beat now for about a decade and it's been a very interesting period because it's been the post-9/11 period, in which I think intelligence agencies have been thrust into the public domain; sometimes for reasons they don't like, when their intelligence is used to justify the war in Iraq, for instance, and then turns out to be wrong. And suddenly with terrorism, intelligence is much more in the public eye than it used to be. It's not like the Cold War, where this stuff could all take place in the shadows and all be clouded in national security and secrecy; so, I think there's been a shift in which they've been forced to engage much more."

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"I think it's interesting how many novelists, you know, you can go back to Somerset Maugham, who worked in MI6, Graham Greene, Fleming, LeCarre, all of them had intelligence backgrounds. Now of course it's partly because they had access to great material, but it's also, I think, one of the things about human intelligence is it's about what Graham Greene called the human factor. Spying is about people; it's about getting inside people's minds and motivations, understanding why they might betray their country or the people around them, and that is intrinsically interesting, I think, and applicable to novels, because novels are often, you know, the modern novel is very much about getting inside peoples minds and understanding their motivations. So I think there is kind of an overlap, you know, not just in the excitement of the subject matter but something about the human factor and the human motivations of spying which does lend itself to people being able to try and portray that in novels and make it interesting."

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Mission: Impossible - Fallout continues a franchise tradition of putting together a great ensemble, and we're running down the main players. Ethan Hunt is the main attraction, but the name of the series (unlike  Bourne and  James Bond ) puts the emphasis on the team, so he's got plenty of help along the way.

Fallout is the sixth installment in the  Mission: Impossible franchise and second from director Christopher McQuarrie. It sees Ethan and his IMF team attempt to make amends after a mission goes horribly wrong. This time, Hunt gets a little extra assistance from the CIA to contend with the vicious villains he's matched up against. Lately,  Mission: Impossible has embraced continuity by having a certain crop of actors return, but  Fallout also introduces some new faces.

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Here's a rundown of who's who in the latest  Mission: Impossible film.

The Returning Mission: Impossible Cast

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt - Cruise has been the face of the  Mission: Impossible movies from the beginning, brilliantly portraying IMF agent Ethan. Over the past 22 years, the franchise has become Cruise's vehicle to pull of his latest death-defying stunts , such as HALO jumping out of an airplane. In keeping with a series tradition,  Fallout finds Hunt on the run with his team following a failed mission. The trailers have indicated audiences will see a darker side to Ethan this time around, as he's open to "reconsidering" what he can be in order to get the job done.

Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell -  Other than Cruise, Rhames is the only actor to appear in all six movies to date. In the original  Mission: Impossible , Ethan recruited Luther to help break into Langley, and he's been a trusted ally ever since. Luther's role in the movies has been somewhat fluid; in  Ghost Protocol he made a cameo towards the very end to keep his perfect attendance record intact. For  Fallout , he looks to be a key part of Ethan's team once again.

Simon Pegg as Benji Dunn - After the success of 2004's  Shaun of the Dead , Pegg joked,  "I'm not about to go and star in Mission: Impossible III." As fate would have it, J.J. Abrams cast Pegg in that very film as Benji, an IMF technician, and he's been a key part of the films for the last 12 years. In the subsequent sequels, Dunn was promoted to field agent and is one of the few people Ethan trusts. In  Fallout , their friendship continues, as Benji is part of Hunt's team.

Rebecca Ferguson as Ilsa Faust -  The breakout star of 2015's  Rogue Nation , McQuarrie knew he had to bring back Ilsa for  Fallout . When audiences first met Faust, she was an MI6 agent sent undercover to infiltrate the Syndicate and crossed paths with Ethan on more than one occasion. She eventually fought alongside Ethan's team and helped them capture Solomon Lane. In  Fallout , the two appear to be at odds, as the trailers depict Ilsa warning Ethan. She's involved in the plot for her own mysterious reasons.

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Alec Baldwin as  Alan Hunley - First introduced in  Rogue Nation , Hunley was the CIA director whose main interest was shutting down the IMF. As the film progressed, he realized the value of the organization (Hunt in particular) and changed his tune. At the end of  Rogue Nation , he was appointed as new IMF secretary, which is a position he still holds in  Fallout .

Michelle Monaghan as Julia Meade-Hunt - Julia is Ethan's wife and made her first appearance in Mission: Impossible III , where she played a sizable role in the plot. Her part was greatly diminished in the last two films;  Ghost Protocol reveals Ethan and Julia live apart in order to keep her safe, and Rogue Nation makes no mention of her. Marketing has downplayed Julia's return in  Fallout , so it'll be interesting to see how she fits into the narrative this time around.

Sean Harris as Solomon Lane -  The first  Mission: Impossible villain to appear in more than one film, Lane made his debut in  Rogue Nation , where he led the Syndicate. Despite his imprisonment, a faction of the group remains active, carrying out Lane's deeds. It's up to Ethan and his team to thwart their plans . Solomon is the closest Ethan has had to a true nemesis in the  Mission: Impossible films, having slipped through Hunt's fingers many times before. In  Rogue Nation , Ethan was obsessed with bringing him down.

The New Mission: Impossible Cast

Angela Bassett as Erica Sloane -  With Hunley now the IMF secretary, the CIA is in need of a new director. Enter Sloane, who has a no-nonsense attitude about her job. In the trailers, she's very critical of Ethan's choice to save his team over keeping the plutonium - a decision that risks the lives of millions.

Henry Cavill as August Walker -  He of the infamous mustache , Cavill's CIA assassin is arguably the most prominent newcomer to the franchise. Walker reports to Sloane, and is assigned to closely monitor Hunt's team after Ethan fails his mission early in the film. The relationship between Walker and the IMF group looks to be complicated, since footage in marketing depicts him coming to blows with Ethan. Sloane describes Walker as a  "hammer," and he's a bit of a brawler .

Vanessa Kirby as White Widow -  Ethan's second attempt to obtain the plutonium comes via this infamous, mysterious black market arms dealer. Marketing has downplayed the extent of her role, but longtime fans of the franchise will be happy to know her character has a major connection to one of the prior movies.

Frederick Schmidt as Zola - This hulking gangster is the brother of Kirby's White Widow.

Wes Bentley as Patrick -  The  American Beauty actor also joins the cast, though he has been absent from marketing. His role in the movie isn't a plot spoiler, but we can't reveal it in this space.

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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise does it better

Seven films in and nothing about M:I, from the star’s incredible stunt skills to the silly-serious tone, is showing any sign of slowing down

A lready, the keynote stunt has become a legend: the one on the poster, the one he reportedly did – for real – six times in one day before he was satisfied. Tom Cruise’s compact body floats free of the motorbike as it drops to Earth from between his diamond-hard thighs, having launched him with a throaty roar off an unfeasibly high cliff-edge; he sails through the sky, pulls the ripcord on a nifty little parachute, and swoops down towards … the speeding Orient Express, fully intent on the traditional carriage-top punch-up. We gasped in the audience. Someone behind me went: “Oh shi-i-i …” Carly Simon should have come in with a new song: Fair Enough, Somebody Does It Better.

This outrageously enjoyable spectacle has compelled my awestruck assent with its sheer stamina, scale and brio: the seventh in the Mission: Impossible action franchise with Cruise starring as Ethan Hunt, the mysterious, superfit leader of a top-secret intelligence/combat unit called the Impossible Mission Force, brought in by a shadowy US government agency when they want deniable stuff doing. Their initials of course are IMF, and in this film they finally get round to doing the gag about them not being the International Monetary Fund, the one we reviewers have been doing for years.

Seven films! Daniel Craig got sick of 007 after just five. But at 61, Cruise looks better than ever and pretty much wedded to the IMF. Other actors his age might be turning to offbeat character turns, but Cruise was doing those for Paul Thomas Anderson and Michael Mann 20 years ago. The M:I series is his vocation, and Cruise has single-handedly persuaded us that the action genre has a new respectability and purpose: the box-office saviour of the live cinema experience. But I can’t help wondering: does he have an exit strategy for this franchise? Like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, this film is split into two parts, and Cruise does a fair bit of talking here about his friends and what he might sacrifice for them. Should we be worried about the end of Part Two?

In this film, as in so many in the past, evil forces are trying to get hold of a MacGuffiny object which will permit them to control/destroy the world, and Ethan and the gang are the only people to stop them. There is some tremendous stunt work, including a wacky Italian Job-style chase around Rome in a titchy little yellow Fiat, the biggest train scenes since Paddington 2 and some very impressive horsemanship from Cruise in the Arabian desert – in his headdress he is the seventh pillar of hunkiness. A very tense opening sequence aboard a Russian sub called the Sebastopol – its associations with Crimea being perhaps a rebuke to Putinist chauvinism – introduces us to a certain bejewelled cruciform key, split into two; this is the oddly low-tech object whose owner, having reunited the halves, can master a new and terrifying form of AI, a self-replicating digital consciousness with the capacity to invade any operating system in the world. Already the genie is emerging from the bottle.

Ethan assembles his crew: there is quirky Benji, played by Simon Pegg, whose purpose is often to direct the boss from afar as he races around various terrains, and Ving Rhames as Luther, his supposed best mate (although they never seem particularly close). Rebecca Ferguson returns as ex-MI6 operative Ilsa, and Vanessa Kirby is back as the arms dealer White Widow who had a moment with Ethan in the last film. Pom Klementieff is a badass martial-arts expert intent on bringing down Ethan at the behest of Hunt’s scary nemesis Gabriel (Esai Morales), while Hayley Atwell brings her English sang-froid to the role of Grace, a criminal who meets-cute with Ethan and becomes a gutsy part of the team.

Of course, we have the traditional analogue-era scenes of Cruise sprinting, as well as the rubber masks, with a new comedy emphasis on people suspiciously tugging at people’s faces to see if they are for real – although a slightly goofy plot quirk at one stage requires Benji’s plastic-mask-fabricating machine, a bit like a waffle maker, to go terribly wrong.

In the past I have been agnostic and a naysayer about M:I, but the pure fun involved in this film, its silly-serious alchemy, and the way the franchise seems to strain at something crazily bigger with every film, as opposed to just winding down, is something to wonder at.

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Ethan Hunt is in some respects the least inquisitive man in action movie history. In " Mission: Impossible " (1996), he risked his life to (I quote from my original review) "prevent the theft of a computer file containing the code names and real identities of all of America's double agents." But Ethan ( Tom Cruise ) must prevent this theft after it happens, because first he must "photograph the enemy in the act of stealing the information, and then follow him until he passes it along." The plot also involves crucial uses for latex masks and helicopters, one of which flies through the Chunnel from England to France, which is difficult, considering helicopter blades are wider than the Chunnel.

In " Mission: Impossible II " (2000), Ethan has to stop a villain who possesses a deadly virus: Twenty-four hours after exposure, you die. The heroine ( Thandie Newton ) does, however, survive at the end of the movie, leaving her available for the sequel, although by "Mission: Impossible III," Ethan Hunt is engaged to a sweet nurse named Julia ( Michelle Monaghan ), who thinks he is a highway traffic control engineer.

Helicopters are again involved, and Ethan falls for the old latex mask trick again, and even uses a latex mask himself, so that others can be fooled and he doesn't have to feel so bad. In a nice visual pun, the helicopters encounter giant energy-generating windmills in deserts near Berlin that uncannily resemble deserts near Palm Springs. It's kind of neat when one propeller slices off another, wouldn't you agree? Observing the curious landscape outside Berlin, I was reminded that Citizen Kane built his Xanadu "on the desert coasts of Florida."

Ethan Hunt's assignment in "M:I III" is to battle the villain Owen Davian ( Philip Seymour Hoffman ) for control of the Rabbit's Foot. In Ethan's final words in the movie, after countless people have been blown up, shot, crushed and otherwise inconvenienced, he asks his boss Brassel ( Laurence Fishburne ), "What is the Rabbit's Foot?" Ethan should know by now it is a MacGuffin, just like the virus and the computer file.

Why does Ethan risk his life and the lives of those he loves to pursue objectives he does not understand? The answer, of course, is that the real objective of all the "M:I" movies is to provide a clothesline for sensational action scenes. Nothing else matters, and explanatory dialogue would only slow things down. This formula worked satisfactorily in "M:I," directed by Brian de Palma , and "M:I II," directed by John Woo , and I suppose it works up to a point in "M:I III," directed by J.J. Abrams, if what you want is endless, nonstop high-tech action. Even the deadlines are speeded up this time. Instead of a 24-hour virus, we have an explosive capsule that detonates five minutes after it zips up your nose.

The action takes us to Berlin, Vatican City, Shanghai and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, although there seems to be no real reason to visit any of those places except to stage stunts involving their landmarks using computer-generated imagery. I did smile at a scene where Ethan parachutes from a building and ends up hanging upside down in his harness in front of a speeding truck. I liked a moment when he jabs a needle of adrenaline into a woman's heart to bring her out of her drugged stupor; Quentin Tarantino should send him a bill. And there is the intriguing speech by an agency techie about the Anti-God Compound, a deadly byproduct of technological overachievement, which might simply destroy everything. If there is an "M:I IV," I recommend the Anti-God Compound as the MacGuffin.

I didn't expect a coherent story from "Mission: Impossible III," and so I was sort of surprised that the plot hangs together more than in the other two films. I was puzzled, however, by the nature of Ethan's relationship with Julia, his sweet fiancee. If he belongs to a secret organization that controls his life and can order him around, doesn't she deserve to know that? Or, if not, is it right for him to marry her? And when she meets his co-workers from the office, do they all talk like he does, about how if you hit the brakes, it can cause a chain reaction slowing down traffic for hundreds of miles?

Such questions are beside the point. Either you want to see mindless action and computer-generated sequences executed with breakneck speed and technical precision, or you do not. I am getting to the point where I don't much care. There is a theory that action is exciting and dialogue is boring. My theory is that variety is exciting and sameness is boring. Modern high-tech action sequences are just the same damn thing over and over again: high-speed chases, desperate gun battles, all possible modes of transportation, falls from high places, deadly deadlines, exotic locations and characters who hardly ever say anything interesting.

I saw "M:I" and "M:I II" and gave them three-star ratings because they delivered precisely what they promised. But now I've been there, done that, and my hope for "M:I IV," if there is one, is that it self-destructs while mishandling the Anti-God Compound.

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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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Why Is A24 Burying Its Jan. 6 Documentary?

The sixth , from two oscar winners, was released without fanfare. the movie itself suggests a surprising reason..

A24 released two movies last Friday. One, the buzzy horror movie I Saw the TV Glow , arrived in theaters after months of enthusiastic press, amid a flood of media appearances by its director and stars. The other, a documentary called The Sixth , appeared on digital platforms with little advance notice, and only a single review in a major outlet. Instead of glossy magazine profiles or a trip to the Criterion closet , Oscar-winning directors Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine got a Politico article wondering why the hottest distributor in town appeared to be “deep-sixing” a movie about one of the most significant political events of the 21 st century: the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021.

The Sixth is not the only recent A24 release to fly beneath the radar: In 2024 alone, it has released several documentaries straight or all but straight to streaming, including My Mercury , a portrait of conservationist Yves Chesselet, and Open Wide , about the controversial but TikTok-famous orthodontic procedure known as “mewing.” In the case of My Mercury , it took trade publications almost a week to even notice that it had started streaming without notice . A24 may be legendary for its ability to turn a movie like Love Lies Bleeding into a much-hyped must-see, but not everything released under its banner gets or lends itself to the same treatment.

The Fines told Politico’s Michael Schaffer that A24 promised them that The Sixth would start streaming on Prime Video the day of its release, an understanding they shared with the movie’s participants, including Rep. Jamie Raskin, who had been voting to certify the election results when rioters breached the Capitol, and photojournalist Mel D. Cole, who said he turned down interview requests from other filmmakers but had agreed to participate in this documentary because of A24’s cachet. “The Fines are great,” he told Schaffer, “but I didn’t know them.”

Instead of streaming for free on Prime to a potential audience in the tens of millions, The Sixth is currently a $19.99 digital purchase, and although it will be available for rental Thursday, neither price point is likely to reach even a fraction of the viewers—especially when so few of them even know that it’s there. Did the studio behind Civil War get cold feet when it came to the depiction of a nonfictional uprising, or did it simply make the calculation that the documentary wasn’t worth the expense of a theatrical release? The Sixth itself suggests a third, equally troubling possibility: One of the darkest days in American history has simply become too uncomfortable to talk about.

The subjects of The Sixth , who also include two Washington police officers, the then chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, and a congressional spokesperson, recall that day in harrowing detail. Combined with footage from security cameras, body cams, and the insurrectionists’ smartphones, their testimony brings the events of Jan. 6 to vivid and unshakable life. Police officer Daniel Hodges, whose gas mask was ripped from his face by rioters as his body was crushed in a doorway, says he came close to death on numerous occasions, and it’s hard to shake the notion that, as bad as things got, it’s a miracle they didn’t get much, much worse. But amid the sickening sensation of watching American democracy hold on by the thinnest of threads, there’s another feeling woven through their accounts, one it takes Cole, who spent months photographing Trump rallies before ending up in the crowd on Jan. 6, to put into words. “I felt embarrassed for all of us,” he says. “For all of America.”

That’s not all that Cole, who is one of three Black witnesses among The Sixth ’s six subjects, felt. He describes outrage at watching the battles his parents and grandparents fought still raging in his adult lifetime, and disbelief at watching Americans turn their backs on the injustice of George Floyd’s murder. (One intriguing through line is the rioters’ use of Black Lives Matter as a reference point: They appropriate the movement’s slogans, like “Whose Streets? Our Streets,” both to mock them and to assert their right to a parallel revolt—one modeled more closely on the violent caricature presented by right-wing media than on BLM itself.) But he’s also stunned by how far those largely white crowds got on Jan. 6, and how fragile that makes things seem. “The things that happened that day, theoretically, are not supposed to happen in this country,” he says. “You know—the greatest country in the world.”

The Fines have called their film nonpartisan, and in a less toxic political climate, its premise, that an election should not be disrupted by mobs in tactical gear assaulting law enforcement officers, ought to be one both sides could endorse without pause or equivocation. But with Donald Trump repeatedly saying he’d pardon the rioters if he is reelected and the Washington establishment war-gaming a repeat next Jan. 6, the issue remains very much a live one. I doubt that anyone who lived through the Capitol riot will ever forget it, and they certainly haven’t a mere three years and change later. But remembering can be a passive act, one that allows you simply to nod in recognition without actually engaging in thought, and that’s the kind of memory The Sixth is designed to reinvigorate. It might be uncomfortable to look back on, but it’s not nearly as uncomfortable as what might happen if we don’t.

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Here are the locations that Red Lobster is closing in the US

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Red Lobster says it is closing nearly 50 of its restaurants in the U.S. The locations span across more than 20 states — cutting back on Red Lobster’s presence in cities like Denver, San Antonio, Indianapolis and Sacramento. Red Lobster has been struggling for some time. With lease and labor costs piling up in recent years, the chain is now reportedly considering filing for bankruptcy.

Here’s a look at which locations will be closing.

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