A tanker chase across the wasteland; the film that defined post-apocalyptic style.
Donnie Yen as the Wing Chun master during the Japanese occupation; ten black belts at once.
Three Spider-Men in one film; the multiverse as nostalgia machine.
Miles Morales across a hundred Spider-worlds; the animation gets even wilder.
A Toronto slacker fights his girlfriend's seven evil exes in video-game style.
A SWAT team fights floor by floor up a Jakarta tower block; the best action film of its decade.
Mel Gibson on an outback highway in the film that cost $350,000 and started a franchise.
A family of retired superheroes in suburbia; Pixar does a Bond film.
Wire-work swordplay across the bamboo forests of Qing dynasty China.
A spy thriller in which half the action runs backwards through time.
The Bride wakes from a coma and starts down her list, katana first.
Pre-crime police in 2054 Washington, and the cop they come for.
Gotham falls and rises in the closing chapter of the Nolan trilogy.
The revenge saga turns talky, cruel and unexpectedly tender.
A freed slave and a bounty hunter ride into the antebellum South.
A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.
Harlem at Christmas, venom powers and a shorter story told a good deal better.
The other half of the linked pair, with a harp that moves Link between two eras of the same island.
Side-scrolling, experience points and the black sheep of the series.
A Metroidvania with time powers and a map you annotate; Ubisoft Montpellier again.
Peru, an eclipse and an apocalypse Lara starts herself.
One of a linked pair of Game Boy Zeldas, with a rod that changes the season.
Link shrinks to the size of a Picori; Capcom's handheld Zelda.
A fox with a sword and an instruction manual in a language you cannot read; Zelda as archaeology.
Ellie and Abby in Seattle; the sequel that split its audience.
Peter and Miles, the symbiote and Venom across two boroughs.
Web-swinging through Manhattan done right; Insomniac's Peter Parker.
Ezio in Rome, an assassin guild and the first multiplayer; the tightest Assassin's Creed.
Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Florence and Venice; the game that made the series.
Edward Kenway, a ship called the Jackdaw and shanties in the Caribbean; the pirate game.
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