Ultimate Revenge is painfully familiar. But it’s also just crunchy enough to be entertaining.

It’s blue-grey. It’s techy-forward. It’s bloody paranoid. It’s Zhang Yimou banging the drum in Scare Out.

Hey, Blades of the Guardians lured Jet Li out of hiding, if only for a few minutes. Better than zero.

At least Kenichiro Akimoto figured out who the real star is in the trippy All You Need Is Kill.

Is Send Help a survival thriller or work place wish fulfilment fantasy? Discuss.

Greenland 2: Migration is most interesting simply for having Greenland in its title.

Mercy is one of those movies that makes the case for more cops with bigger guns and caution over too much AI. Revolutionary!

It’s Oona Chapin to the rescue in the third, too familiar entry in James Cameron’s billion dollar franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Fans: Louis Koo is going Back to the Past. Non-fans? Maybe try SpongeBob.

No.

Mamoru Hosoda’s ambitious Scarlet doesn’t come close to Hamlet’s depth or storytelling grace.

It’s goofy AF but Now You See Me: Now You Don’t knows that and doesn’t care. Good on ya, mates.

This is not a remake of The Running Man, so Schwarzenegger stans, stand down.

Come to Against All Odds for a lost WWII resistance tale, stay for Louise Wong with a flamethrower.

Predator: Badlands is the one with the sweet and cuddly Predator!

If you prefer Nine Inch Nails to Daft Punk, you may prefer Tron: Ares to Tron: Legacy. May.

Third time is not the charm for Dante Lam’s ‘Operation’ series because Operation Hadal is a mess.

Is Dongji Rescue maybe Die Hard in the Pacific War?

If ever a movie were critic-proof, it’s Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle.

Nobody 2 is a repeat of Nobody, with a few more dad jokes.