Action Picks

Medical courier Bryan gets swallowed by a single fateful night that collapses into chaos, and he has to fight his way through it. Director Zach Cregger leans into the horror, sci-fi and adventure of it, keeping the momentum relentless from scene to scene. Seeing this kind of dark, loud survival ride in English on a big screen is the way to take it in.

As war and plague tear through 14th-century England, a peasant ignites a rebellion and unites an army of commoners against the King in a desperate fight for justice. Director Paul Greengrass hands Andrew Garfield and Jamie Bell an action-driven uprising with high stakes and mass battle scale that rewards the big screen. It plays in English, though screenings are thin this week, so plan ahead if you want to catch it.