Action/Adventure

Dominated by male bravado and heroism (and often a short attention span) the Action genre gets physical with conflict, while Adventure pursues the big quest…

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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023): Dir. Chad Stahelski
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård…; Keanu's stonefaced man-alone takes his fight to the High Table as he seeks to dispatch the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Tokyo to Berlin... etc. The stakes continue to escalate through the roof.
Bullet Train (2022): Dir. David Leitch
Feat. Brad Pitt, Zazie Beetz, Logan Lerman…; Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug’s latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe – all with connected, yet…
Northman, The (2022): Dir. Robert Eggers
Feat. Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Anya Taylor-Joy…; An action-filled epic from Robert Eggers (THE LIGHTHOUSE, THE WITCH) that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father’s murder. The director's leap to big budget/big canvas film-making gamely tries to subvert hyper-masculine hero's revenge tropes but is still enslaved by them, and…
Lost City, The (2022): Dir. Aaron Nee, Adam Nee
Feat. Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe…; Sandra Bullock plays a brilliant but reclusive author who has spent her career writing about exotic places in her popular romance-adventure novels featuring a handsome cover model (Channing Tatum), who has dedicated his life to embodying the hero character, “Dash.” While on tour promoting her new book…
Batman, The (2022): Dir. Matt Reeves
Feat. Robert Pattinson, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell…; Robert Pattinson is Bruce Wayne in this impressively dark and epic reboot of DC comics' iconic knight in shining latex.
Sleeping Dogs (1977): Dir. Roger Donaldson
Feat. Sam Neill, Warren Oates; Roger Donaldson's nihilistic action-thriller in which Sam Neill finds himself alone between two opposing extremist groups. A trail-blazer of the NZ film industry, energized by the blood, sweat and tears that went into making it happen.
Last Duel, The (2021): Feat. Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer…; Grand historical drama from director Ridley Scott, set in medieval France, where King Charles VI declares that a knight (Matt Damon) settle his dispute with his former friend the squire (Adam Driver), by challenging him to a duel. Offering a critique of systemic misogyny wrapped in a lavish medieval epic,…