Cruise on the outside of the Burj Khalifa, and the sandstorm chase.
The Penguin, Catwoman and a Gotham of black ice; the darker Burton Batman.
The Continental's rules, a marker called in and a hall of mirrors in Rome.
They killed his dog. Eighty-one bodies and a new action grammar.
Excommunicado in New York, with horses, dogs and a knife-throwing library.
Superheroes as corporate psychopaths and the men who hunt them; Homelander.
A teenager gets his father's powers and learns what his father is; the animated superhero series with teeth.
An Israeli undercover unit in the West Bank; the series both sides watched.
Jack Bauer in real time, one season per day; the split screen and the clock.
Humanity inside three walls against giants who eat people; the anime that ended in 2023.
Rio's BOPE police unit in the favelas; the Brazilian action film everyone argued about.
Zombies on the KTX from Seoul; the Korean blockbuster with a heart.
A hitman tries to fund an eye operation for the singer he blinded; Woo's doves and two-gun ballet.
Chow Yun-fat in a hospital shootout of one continuous take; John Woo's Hong Kong farewell.
Stephen Chow's cartoon martial-arts comedy in a 1940s Shanghai slum.
Jet Li tells the King of Qin three versions of a story, each in a different colour.
Jackie Chan slides down a pole of lights through a shopping mall; his own best film.
A class of schoolchildren forced to fight to the death on an island; the film The Hunger Games was accused of copying.
Chow Yun-fat lights a cigarette with a burning banknote; the heroic bloodshed genre begins.
Jackie Chan learns the drunken boxing style from a beggar; kung fu comedy at its purest.
A bamboo forest fight and an echo game of drums; wuxia at its most beautiful.
Two thieves hired to catch a bandit; the biggest Bollywood film ever, still quoted daily.
A man raised in a village discovers he is the heir of a kingdom; Indian cinema at its most enormous.
Bruce Lee at a martial-arts tournament on an island fortress; the mirror room.
The time heist and the portals; the highest-grossing film for a while.
James Gunn reboots Superman with Krypto the dog; the start of the new DC.
Tom Cruise's HALO jump, a helicopter chase in Kashmir and a broken ankle on camera.
Damon and Greengrass return; Athens riots and a Las Vegas car chase.
Two revolutionaries in 1920s India, a tiger, a motorbike and "Naatu Naatu"; Tollywood at full scale.
Thanos collects the stones and snaps; half the audience gone.
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