If Tom Cruise is truly going to save the movies from Big Tech, he'll do so with a fistful of popcorn. Cruise emerged as Hollywood's foremost advocate for the theatrical experience during the COVID-19 pandemic,

Christopher McQuarrie directed and wrote four consecutive films in the franchise, including this weekend’s “Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning.”

The best of the more minor action sequences in The Final Reckoning involves Grace and William Donloe’s wife exchanging fire with Russian special forces as they try to get the coordinates for the Seva...