The company you keep

Mission: Impossible / Rogue Nation

Crit

Spoiler alert: no matter how certain it seems and how often it seems certain that Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, duh) is doomed, he somehow survives to the end.

This is only the second of these I've seen, I believe, the other being the one where Keri Russell proved that, cute blondness notwithstanding, she could credibly play a spy; the rest is The Americans history. (That would be MI3, I guess; before I started blogging.)

Hunt knows something that important people don't believe, has to overcome foes, friends, and a femme fatale who seems to be both at once, yadda, yadda, yadda. Perfectly entertaining, perfectly silly, perfectly popcorn-and-Diet Coke-and-air conditioning-on-a-steamy-summer-day.

Trailers

• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi--Is Michael Bay anti-Hillary? The January release date suggests campaign attack timing.
• Zoolander 2 (aka 2oolander)--What a brilliant freakin' teaser! Don't want to spoil it: just go to lots of movies until you see it.