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starstarstarstar Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
starstarstarstar Charles Taylor - Salon
starstarstarstar Desson Howe - Washington Post
starstarstar Susan Stark - Detroit News
starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar Chris Hicks - Deseret News
starstarstar Sean Means - Film.com
starstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Carrie Gorringe - Nitrate Online
starstar Richard Schickel - TIME
starstar Mick LaSalle - SF Chronicle

A film destined to satisfy the thrill junkie and the sophisticate alike, Mission: Impossible works impeccably as a convoluted cinematic game

- Joe Baltake

It's the worst kind of convoluted thriller – it can never unravel satisfactorily because there's nothing simple at its center, just more confusion

- Mick LaSalle

Mission: Impossible

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Tom Cruise plays an Impossible Missions Force agent trying to clear his name after being blamed for a botched mission that results in the murders of his IMF teammates. Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vanessa Redgrave. Director: Brian De Palma (1996, PG-13)

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