Impossible action spy franchise has maintained remarkable quality control, but four installments are true masterpieces.

The Queue Every ‘Mission: Impossible’ movie, ranked See how the new "Mission: Impossible" movie stands against the rest. From left, Pom Klementieff, Greg Tarzan Davis, Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg ...

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning" (Paramount Pictures/Skydance). Though Cruise loves making movies, he doesn’t enjoy being their preordained salvation.

McQuarrie directed Cruise in the last four Mission: Impossible movies, as well as in 2012's Jack Reacher. They have become very close friends in real life, and will make several upcoming movies ...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning director Christopher McQuarrie has explained the movie's final moments and reveals why Tom Cruise made the call to scrap a planned post-credits scene shoot ...

That single-minded focus on his craft has fans calling him “the last movie star.” Mr. Cruise’s character, Ethan Hunt, looks weathered and weary of saving the world. He’s suffered loss in service of ...

There’s a common sentiment in the Mission: Impossible franchise that accomplishing each movie is just as difficult as the mission on the screen. And Hayley Atwell now knows that firsthand after ...

Justin Chang reviews Christopher McQuarrie’s “Mission: Impossible—The Final Reckoning,” starring Tom Cruise, Angela Bassett, Nick Offerman, Hannah Waddingham, Ving Rhames, and Hayley Atwell.

If you don’t surrender to the complicated logistics of making a “Mission: Impossible” movie, “it will crush you,” Christopher McQuarrie said.