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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay–Part 2

The fate of the nation of Panem is decided as Katniss fights through the Capitol to confront Snow.

Can this be more than lazy writing for the series to go out with a visual bang but a narrative whimper?

White Ghost

An American soldier living in hiding in the jungles of Vietnam comes face-to-face with his former commanding officer who wants him dead.

Can this Missing in Action-style yarn work without Chuck Norris?

Bite the Dust

Two bounty hunters and a young woman face off against a mining baron using children taken from an orphan train.

Can this be worthwhile despite a near poverty level budget?

Ms. Marvel-Season One: This Should Have Been A Very Short Special Instead

A 16-year-old fangirl of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel gains powers of her own.

Check out why I feel this long slog should have been so much shorter. Did I just give one reason away?

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant

A U.S. Army Green Beret master sergeant struggles to rescue his former Afghan interpreter from the Taliban after the American withdrawal.

Can Ritchie deliver an understated action thriller?

The Unequaled Original Planet of the Apes

A trio of astronauts crash on a strange world ruled by apes.

Can people dressed as apes still be an effective film today?

The Wind Rises

A fictionalized biography of Jirô Horikoshi who designed the Mitsubishi A5M fighter as well as the Mitsubishi A6M Zero used by the Empire of Japan during World War II.

Can a fictionalized animated biography be engaging?

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay–Part 1

Katniss becomes entrenched in the growing rebellion against the Capitol when she finds District 13 is not as gone as the world believes.

Can this be aimed at young adults yet still mature?

No Highway in the Sky

An engineer predicts that a plane’s tail will fail after a specific number of hours and struggles to convince those around him.

Road to Revenge

When four estranged siblings learn the man that killed their mother is running for governor they set aside their differences to join together to stop him and get justice.