Action Picks

This is the returning 2001 classic, and it still delivers pure kinetic momentum: undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Dominic Toretto's street-racing crew while chasing a string of big-rig hijackings. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker anchor the crime thriller, and the racing and heist sequences hold up as big-screen adrenaline. It carries 6.8 on IMDb and 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Ridley Scott directs this science fiction thriller about a man surviving a ravaged world with his dog and a hardened gunman, until a mysterious radio transmission sparks a hunt across the wreckage. Josh Brolin and Jacob Elordi bring weight to a story that trades on tension and a driving mystery. Expect atmosphere and stakes rather than wall-to-wall gunfire, but the payoff of that hunt lands bigger on a large screen.