Mission: Impossible - Fallout

The team reunites to do battle with predictably unpredictable superman, engaging in nuclear stunts, cleverly woven together into a cohesive and compelling story. Alarmingly plausible finale intercuts beautifully with emotional references to prior chapters, though action set piece antics cruise far above anything that this impossible franchise has done yet.

The Greatest Showman

A Passable Showman features glittery idealized representation of grotesque rags to riches story. Catchy lyrics and impressive acrobatics leap around above the mediocre missed messages of elephantine caca land, while Logan retains his ability to heal his reputation despite freakishly unkind behavior. Never quite lives up to spectacular opening moment.

Life

This prequel to Gravity features a team of Promethean ‘scientists’ struggling to use what they learned from watching Alien to defeat an invincible space critter. After series of truly terrifying sequences, Donnie Darko makes a last-ditch effort to oust the evil jello-packet by venting the station’s plot logic into space.