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Song of the Day #6,162: ‘Cutting on One’ – Lorne Balfe

The next category I’ll rank from the Mission: Impossible film series is SET PIECES.

Almost every M:I film has a major sequence (sometimes more than one) in which the team works together, using fancy tech and their own ingenuity, to pull off a seemingly, yes, impossible mission.

The scenes I’m considering don’t include car or motorcycle chases, fistfights, or standalone stunts. They have to involve a coordinated effort by multiple team members to misdirect and deceive. They are what separates the IMF from other world-saving teams.

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Song of the Day #4,225: ‘Celebrate’ – Lorne Balfe

Best Movies of the 2010s
#4 – The Florida Project (2017)

For a couple of months at the beginning of 2018, I watched The Florida Project nearly every day. After missing its 2017 theatrical run, I caught up with Sean Baker’s tragicomedy on a long flight and was instantly blown away. When I returned home, I bought the Blu-ray and had the movie on repeat every free moment I got.

More than anything, I just wanted to spend time with its characters — Halley and Moonee, a mother and daughter living in a cheap motel outside of Disney World. Baker and his actors (newcomers Bria Vinaite and Brooklynn Prince) so effectively brought this world to life that I couldn’t bear to leave it.

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