Angelina Jolie captures the incredible story of Louis “Louie” Zamperini, a seemingly invincible Olympic distance runner, as his life takes an incredibly unexpected turn in the 2014 war drama Unbroken. The film, starring Jack O’Connell, captures the immensely gut-wrenching and agonizing tribulations Zamperini must face as he finds himself in the hull of a gunship and later a prisoner of war in Japanese territory.

With a brand-new Spider-Man movie must come brand-new villains. While previous adaptations pit the friendly neighborhood wall-crawler against such classic comic book Spider-foes as the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, the Vulture, and Mysterio, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is taking an even bigger swing by having Tom Holland’s Peter Parker face off with a gauntlet of B-list supervillains. Besides the returning Mac Gargan (Michael Mando) — suiting up as the pincered Scorpion nearly a decade after we last saw him in the post-credits stinger in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming — the Sony-Marvel franchise’s fourth installment expands Spider-Man’s rogues gallery with the likes of the spike-toed Tarantula, Aussie assassin Boomerang, marble-skinned mobster Tombstone (Marvin "Krondon" Jones III), and … Hand ninjas?

Westerns have long been a tradition in entertainment, but becoming a classic still remains elusive. The genre may be having a new heyday, but no current entry into the world of Westerns can live up to No Country for Old Men. Adapted from the book of the same name by master of the bleak Western, Cormac McCarthy, this sun-soaked thriller is one of the Coen Brothers’ best.

It takes a certain level of creative madness to create something like Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's long-gestating film that finally saw its release in 2024 after his script sat on the shelves for over 40 years. The legendary director fully realized his passion project with this self-financed, freewheeling portrait of an artist at his most unyielding. As a result, Megalopolis baffled most viewers who bothered to see it, and it seemed like a misbegotten idea and execution for a filmmaker who directed The Godfatherand Apocalypse Now. Between the tumultuous production and the self-assurance of his own vision, the movie succinctly represents Coppola and his vision.

After the recent mixed reception to The Mandalorian and Grogu, it's clear that Star Wars isn't the undisputed hit franchise it used to be. While Star Wars continues to thrive in the area of made-for-streaming animation, live-action endeavors have been largely hit or miss, with even the best outings failing to live up to their own hype. However, apart from Rogue One and its television prequel Andor, arguably the most rewatchable Star Wars project of the Disney era is the highly underrated Solo: A Star Wars Story.

William Goldman’s 1985 novel Heat had the makings of a gritty crime thriller destined to be adapted for the big screen with its exploration of the moody life of a former mercenary-turned-bodyguard, plagued by a gambling addiction and a desire to flee Las Vegas. Goldman’s novel was adapted twice — first, in the 1986 thriller of the same name starring Burt Reynolds under the direction of Dick Richards, and then the 2015 version, called Wild Card, starring Jason Statham by director Simon West.

1990 was an unusually big year for crime movies. There are crime films that come out every year, sure, but there was one of the best of all time in 1990: Goodfellas, plus a bunch of other notable ones. Sure, The Godfather Part III wasn’t as good as either of the first two, but it’s still not as bad as some people make it out to be. Then, there was Miller’s Crossing, which has always been an underrated Coen Brothers film, Dick Tracy (which is more of a comedic crime movie), and John Woo’s Bullet in the Head, which gets unfairly buried between The Killer (1989) and Hard Boiled (1992), despite being almost just as good.

If you like war movies that also function as works of science fiction, and are especially pleased when such films also prove thrilling, action-packed, and satirical, then you probably don’t find too many movies that are right up your alley. But at least you’ve got Starship Troopers. That’s one that miraculously feels like all those things all at once, and it’s also a pretty great film at the same time. So, if you’ve already got Netflix, and haven’t seen it yet for whatever reason, watching it should probably be made a priority.

Long before the Metaverse, Oculus, and Charlie Brooker's acclaimed speculative sci-fi series, master director David Cronenberg plumbed the depths of virtual reality's implications with his fleshy, frantic masterpiece Existenz. Featuring an uncanny lead performance by Jennifer Jason Leigh as the "game pod goddess" whose creations kick off the intrigue, as well as Jude Law and Willem Dafoe, it's an utterly unique vision of video gaming and the horror that can ensue when it bleeds into reality.

Summer camp season is almost here, and Netflix is about to make the journey to Camp Half-Blood a lot easier. Beginning June 15, both Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters will be available to stream on the platform, giving fans a chance to revisit one of the most imaginative fantasy worlds of the 2010s. The Percy Jackson movies have always occupied a somewhat unusual place in fantasy fandom. Readers of Rick Riordan's beloved novels have spent years debating the movies' changes to the source material, while the recent Disney+ adaptation has introduced a new generation of viewers to the son of Poseidon and his fellow demigods with a more faithful take on the books.

Most people scrolling through Robert Redford’s filmography probably pause at Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, nod respectfully at All the President's Men, maybe throw The Sting on during a lazy Sunday afternoon, then completely glide past The Great Waldo Pepper like it does not exist. Which is understandable, honestly. The title sounds less like an action movie and more like somebody’s uncle who owns a corner store and complains about parking meters. Nothing about it prepares you for Redford dangling thousands of feet in the air inside airplanes that look assembled from spare parts and blind optimism.

Christian Bale has long been a powerhouse in entertainment, from his unnerving role as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho to the Caped Crusader himself in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy. Batman hung up his cowl in 2012 after The Dark Knight Rises, but that wasn’t the end for Bale. Pretty soon after, the performer delivered a gripping performance in a forgotten thriller that deserves a second chance.