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Topic: Action movies

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a Cabinet meeting on Oct. 9, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth's action movie rhetoric

Casey Ryan Kelly - The Conversation
Reacher (Prime Video)

The violent delights of "Reacher"

Melanie McFarland
"The Predator" (20th Century Fox)

Why "The Predator" is a problem movie

Matthew Rozsa
Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in "Mission: Impossible – Fallout" (Paramount Pictures)

"Fallout": Cruise delivers summer fun

Matthew Rozsa
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(Marvel/Getty/Spencer Platt/Photo montage by Salon)

"Thor: Ragnarok": A rebuke to Trump?

Amanda Marcotte
Geena Davis in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" (New Line Cinema)

Bullets and Baking

Melanie McFarland
Will Smith and Margot Robbie in "Suicide Squad" (DC Entertainment)

Second-rate "Suicide Squad"

Andrew O'Hehir
Olivia Munn in "X-Men: Apocalypse" (Fox)

"X-Men" face ancient boredom

Andrew O'Hehir
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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in "The Nice Guys" (Warner Bros. Entertainment)

Rusty & Ryan do "Chinatown"

Andrew O'Hehir
Chris Evans in "Captain America: Civil War" (Marvel)

Captain America: Really Trump?

Andrew O'Hehir
Burnie Burns, Colton Dunn, Gavin Free and Michael Jones in "Lazer Team" (Rooster Teeth Productions)

Fight Trump with "Lazer Team"

Andrew O'Hehir
Samuel L. Jackson in "The Hateful Eight" (The Weinstein Company)

Trapped with Quentin Tarantino

Andrew O'Hehir
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(AP/Susan Walsh/Dreamworks/Salon)

Michael Bay! Benghazi! Boom!

Andrew O'Hehir
Jake Gyllenhaal in "Southpaw" (The Weinstein Company)

The Great White Hope of 2015

Andrew O'Hehir
"Pixels" (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Pixels' soul-sucking emptiness

Andrew O'Hehir
Paul Rudd in "Ant-Man" (Marvel Studios)

Marvel goes microscopic

Andrew O'Hehir
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Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator Genisys" (Paramount Pictures)

Elegy for the Governator

Andrew O'Hehir
Onni Tommila and Samuel L. Jackson in "Big Game" (Altitude Film Entertainment)

Honey, we lost the president!

Andrew O'Hehir
(Universal Pictures)

Lessons from "Jurassic World"

Andrew O'Hehir
George Clooney in "Tomorrowland" (Disney Enterprises Inc.)

Nostalgia for the lost future

Andrew O'Hehir
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Charlize Theron in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (AP/Warner Bros.)

Jenny Kutner
(Marvel)

Joss Whedon's doomed struggle

Andrew O'Hehir
Lawrence Makoare in "The Dead Lands" (Transmission Films)

A Maori action movie? Hell yes

Andrew O'Hehir
(Open Road Films)

Sean Penn's doomed thriller

Andrew O'Hehir
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