Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Although the subgenre had been around almost as long as talkies were, Outrageous Fortune is notable for being the first “buddy comedy” from Hollywood to boast two female actors as the stars. There are...
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Real Men (1987)
Real Men is a buddy action-comedy, which usually means that the plot is shallow to seeing the comic shenanigans the two leads get into and the banter it inspires. It’s a formula proposition, but...
Spies Like Us (1985)
The Dr. Strangelove-esque plot of Spies Like Us involves the two most inept, low-level U.S. intelligence agents they could find to go on a mission as expendable decoys for the real agents. Emmett Fitz-Hume...
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2 brings back Denzel Washington (Fences), along with director Antoine Fuqua (The Magnificent Seven) and screenwriter Richard Wenk (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), continuing the further adventures of one man’s quest to...
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Ethan Hunt (Cruise, American Made) and the rest of the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) get the blame for losing a target by putting the well-being of their own force over that of millions, perhaps billions,...
American Made (2017)
Bouncing back from his prior fiasco, The Mummy, Tom Cruise (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) gets to use his effervescent charm to good effect in American Made, a slick and entertaining production based...
Snowden (2016)
It would seem a daunting proposition to try to give a dramatization of events and issues that have already been captured brilliantly on film just a couple of years prior, as Snowden reenacts a good deal...
Central Intelligence (2016)
Central Intelligence is the kind of film I find hard to grade, as it is one that is consummately watchable, and yet it also isn’t really what I would call a truly good movie. I...
Criminal (2016)
It’s perhaps fitting that the generically titled Criminal‘s plot centers around a man who is, literally, conflicted about who he is supposed to be when the film itself suffers from the same conflict. Directed by...
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
13 Hours takes place during a volatile time in Libya, shortly after the overthrow and murder of their dictator, Muammar Gadaffi, in 2011. Various factions began their scramble for power, starting with raiding the...