Rambo III (1988)

Rambo III (1988)

[4] The muscles and the explosions are bigger than ever, but the story and characters are running on fumes in Rambo III. 1982's First Blood, or 'Rambo 1' for the uninitiated, is a genuinely terrific action-drama with a flawed, tragic hero at…
Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)

Godzilla Minus Zero (2026)

[7] Director Takashi Yamazaki returns for the sequel to 2023's sensational Godzilla Minus One. Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, and young Sae Nagatani also return as the surrogate family that became the heart of that first film. Two years later, a new monster…
Cobra (1986)

Cobra (1986)

[4] Cobra is one of those movies that's so bad, it's almost kinda good. Sylvester Stallone stars as a Dirty Harry-like cop who colors outside the lines. His superior officers hate having to rely on him, but he somehow always manages to…
X-Men (2000)

X-Men (2000)

[7] The first X-Men movie came along at an interesting time in the history of so-called 'comic book' movies, long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe became a reliable box office phenomenon. It was only a few years after the infamously goofy Batman…
Bumblebee (2018)

Bumblebee (2018)

[4] In this much more family-oriented prequel to the 2007 Transformers movie, a teenaged girl named Charlie (True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld) repairs an old Volkswagen Beetle that turns out to be a Transformer scout named B-127. She nicknames him 'Bumblebee' and soon…
Transformers (2007)

Transformers (2007)

[8] Director Michael Bay (The Rock, Armageddon) lends his high-gloss, kinetic style to Transformers, the first live-action movie based on Hasbro's popular line of '80s toys. But it's executive producer Steven Spielberg who gives the high-octane film its heart. Spielberg insisted that…
The Dirty Dozen (1967)

The Dirty Dozen (1967)

[7] Lee Marvin leads a dozen military convicts on a secret mission to infiltrate a Nazi stronghold and assassinate several German officers. Many of the 'Dirty Dozen' are sentenced to hang, but Marvin slowly earns their trust as he whips them into…
Masters of the Universe (1987)

Masters of the Universe (1987)

[7] If you had to make a movie based on the ham-fisted He-Man toy line and you had no choice but to cast Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) in the lead, you could do far worse than first-time director Gary Goddard did with…
Superman Returns (2006)

Superman Returns (2006)

[7] Brandon Routh dons the cape and tights to play Superman and his alter-ego, Clark Kent, in this film that's pretty much a direct sequel to 1981's Superman II. The film picks up five years after Superman left Earth to see if…
Enemy at the Gates (2001)

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

[7] Jude Law stars as Russia's celebrated World War II hero Vasily Zaitsev, a gifted sniper who stealthily picks off German soldiers during the battle of Stalingrad. A political officer, commisar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes), transforms Zaitsev into a near-mythic folk hero through…