Mission: Impossible returns, and Nine Perfect Strangers: What's coming up this week

The highly anticipated eighth film in the long-running Tom Cruise-led spy action series is almost here.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hits cinemas on Wednesday, and sees Ethan Hunt - played by Cruise - racing against time to find a rogue artificial intelligence, known as the Entity, that can destroy mankind.

Many reviews have been positive. Writing in the Independent, Clarisse Loughrey awarded it four stars, saying she "adored it".

Peter Bradshaw awarded it five stars in the Guardian, labelling it "wildly entertaining".

But Hollywood Reporter's chief film critic David Rooney was more critical, calling it "a disappointing farewell with a handful of high points courtesy of the indefatigable lead actor".

As ever, there's loads of focus on the stunts, with the film's social media account and trailer promoting plenty of impressive sequences, including 62-year-old Cruise hanging precariously off a helicopter.

"Your jaw will detach and your palms will leak sweat," writes John Nugent in Empire.

By Helen Bushby, entertainment reporter

Nicole Kidman is having quite the year.

She's already been in Babygirl, a film that sparked hundreds of memes, and starred alongside Succession's Matthew Macfadyen in Holland.

Now, she's back for season 2 of Nine Perfect Strangers, which drops on Prime Video on Thursday.

The show sees nine new strangers, connected in ways they could never imagine, invited by celebrity wellness guru Masha Dmitrichenko (played by Kidman) to join a wellness retreat in the Austrian Alps.

Over the course of a week, she takes them to the brink.

The first season got mixed reviews, with some critics noting it suffered from comparison with The White Lotus.

But others praised the performances, with this season's cast also including Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), Lena Olin (Alias) and Annie Murphy (Schitt's Creek).