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Mission: Impossible at 30 Reappraised

Brian De Palma’s restrained style, anchored by the film’s near‑silent vault scene, reads as a prescient warning about surveillance and synthetic identity.

Brendan Fraser’s Rental Family Lands on PVOD as Blu-ray Arrives Feb. 17