Movies in the Action/Adventure genre
Here’s yet another original streaming “event” movie that rewards viewers for inattentiveness and distraction. The less attention one pays to this soulless retread of an action/adventure wannabe, the better it looks. With its A-list cast and ...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-05-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Guy Ritchie
Cast: John Krasinski, Natalie Portman, Eiza Gonzalez, ...
Thunderbolts*, Marvel’s entry into the early summer box office sweepstakes, is a comic book film of a different sort. While most of the expected tropes are present – big battles, costly action sequences, a threat to life on this planet – tho...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-05-02
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jake Schreier
Cast: Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, ...
Was it only six years ago that every Marvel movie was greeted with unbridled anticipation and around-the-clock showings that delivered box office records? Although Disney executives have been quick to blame the pandemic for the decline of the MCU,...
U.S. Release Date: 2025-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Julius Onah
Cast: Anthony Mackie, Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, ...
Entries into the so-called “Sony Spider-Man Universe” continue to disappoint. Even the best of these has not been very good and Kraven the Hunter is far from the best (it’s not the worst either, though). For those looking for silver linings,...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-12-13
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: J.C. Chandor
Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger, ...
Throughout his career, Ridley Scott has assiduously avoided sequels, making only two: Hannibal (the follow-up to Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs) and Alien: Covenant (the sequel to his own Prometheus). Gladiator II marks the third. ...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-11-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, ...
Some Christmas films are designed as family-friendly romps that can be enjoyed by all as a holiday confection. (Perfect example: A Christmas Story.) Others are adult-oriented fare that might make the Grinch blush. (Perfect example: Bad Santa.) Then...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-11-15
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Jake Kasdan
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, ...
From the outside looking in, I was dubious about how the filmmakers behind Twisters were going to handle a sequel-not-sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. With Bill Paxton dead and Helen Hunt not participating, there seemed to be no real p...
U.S. Release Date: 2024-07-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Intense Action, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, ...
The box office performance of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman assured there would be sequel but Burton’s desire for greater creative control caused the production of Batman Returns to linger in development longer than Warner Brothers preferred. In ad...
U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-04-11
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, ...
Ten years ago, with much fanfare, the DC Extended Universe was born. Warner Brothers, riding the wave of success from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy, decided that rather than stick with stand-alone titles featuring their best-loved supe...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: James Wan
Cast: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, ...
The Marvels is so poorly conceived and ineptly executed that it not only makes this a front-runner for the dubious honor of worst movie of the MCU but a contender for the worst superhero movie of all time (although I’d argue that Catwoman retain...
U.S. Release Date: 2023-11-10
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Nia DaCosta
Cast: Brie Larson, Toyonah Parris, Iman Vellani, ...