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…
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

[8] The sixth Mission: Impossible movie takes everything that was great about the previous entry and lifts it to even greater heights. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, as does the series' terrific ensemble of supporting talent, including Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg,…
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025)

[6] Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects) concludes the Mission: Impossible franchise with this eighth, overly-long and curiously somber film. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team spend half the film wrestling with the U.S. government before finally being cut loose to…
Strange Days (1995)

Strange Days (1995)

[8] Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett star in this tech-noir thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark, The Hurt Locker) and writer James Cameron (Titanic, Avatar). It's late in the year 1999 (four years into the future for when the film was…
Black Panther (2018)

Black Panther (2018)

[6] Somewhere in Africa, there's a secret society hidden away by fancy technology. They have, like, a really super-strong metal there that the rest of the world wants, but the secret African people know the rest of the world will just destroy…
This Means War (2012)

This Means War (2012)

[7] Chris Pine, Tom Hardy, and Reese Witherspoon star in this McG-directed comedy-action flick about two CIA guys who find themselves competing for the same woman's affections. The script is born of stale formula, but the plot is kept out of the…
Passion Fish (1992)

Passion Fish (1992)

[7] Writer/director John Sayles serves up this intimate character drama about a TV soap star who has to learn to find new purpose in life after a car accident leaves her permanently wheelchair-bound. A live-in nurse becomes her lifeline, which makes Passion…