All the Old Knives (2022)

 

Chris Pine's CIA agent, Harry Pelham meets up with a former romantic interest, Thandiwe Newton's CIA agent, Celia Harrison, over dinner in a swanky restaurant and just like that scene with George Clooney and J-Lo in the carboot in Out Of Sight, the talk is smooth and there is sexual chemistry bathed in a golden light, but they can't simply jump each other's bones because time has passed, Celia has a husband and child now, and Harry is in town on assignment to find out if Celia is the member of their old spy gang who leaked top secret data to a gang of airplane hijackers, and it all almost makes sense in the end.

★★★☆☆

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

A man hits rock bottom trying to onsell the luxury medical items he has unwisely invested in, splitting with his wife in the process and ending up sleeping rough in subway toilets with his young son, but none of these social horrors is enough to dent the film's faith in the American Dream and the idea that determined men (for example, Will Smith) achieve happyness so long as they eventually gain employment in the corporate world.

★★★☆☆

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M:i-2 (2010)

Tom Cruise is the best thing in this, the worst of the five Mission: Impossible movies so far and one that plays like an Australian tourism advertisement marketed to an Asian movie-going audience, with pointed Australian accents and Aussie tourism icons placed throughout and with direction by John Woo despite his balletic "heroic bloodshed" style not being suited to the spy series.

★☆☆☆☆

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