Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is co-written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie and stars Tom Cruise as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt who, with his team, attempt to stop an artificial intelligence known as the Entity before it completely destroys the world as we know it. The first act of McQuarrie’s film is exposition and flashback heavy and introduces some plot elements that don’t quite come together fully, but his film is engaging and exhilarating throughout. The tension is ever…

Thunderbolts* is the now 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and serves as the final film in Phase Five. Directed by Jake Schreier (Netflix’s Beef), Thunderbolts* stars an ensemble cast as a group of criminals and antiheroes become a team. Florence Pugh is a tour-de-force in this film, her Yelena carrying more emotional weight and arguably more captivating here than her onscreen sister Natasha has ever been. Wyatt Russell and Lewis Pullman are noteworthy alongside Pugh, the former making…