One-Line Review: Extraction (2020), starring Chris Hemsworth

With excellent fight choreography, camerawork, and general production values, Extraction suffers only from thorough predictability.

One-Line Review: Code 8 (2019), starring Robbie Amell

This engaging movie about oppressed people with powers hit the marks with strong performances and effects, but failed to give women roles other than "prize" or "motive" and kept the main cast predominantly, almost stubbornly, white.

One-Line Review: The Man in the White Suit (1951), starring Alec Guiness

This movie spends altogether too much time with laboratory hijinx, paints capitalists and unions as anti-progress (half-true), and ends in a whimper, but it's neat seeing young Alec Guiness.

One-Line Review: Cold Pursuit (2019), starring Liam Neeson

Somebody tried to breed a traditional movie emotionless tough guy (Liam Neeson) with a Coen brothers film, and it came out... all right?

One-Line Review: Doom: Annihilation (2019), starring Amy Manson

This movie doesn’t have a consistent theme or CGI, but at least it has lots of monsters to shoot at and a pointless 90 seconds talking about a gun from the video game.

One-Line Review: Barely Lethal (2015), starring Hailee Steinfeld

This film has a promising premise and some moments of good chemistry, but it can’t track moment-to-moment whether the protagonist should be a teenage superspy or a naif who learned social habits from high school movies.

One-Line Review: Spenser Confidential (2020), starring Mark Wahlberg and Winston Duke

Entertaining in the moment, this movie is bland enough that there’s nothing to say beyond liking Duke’s character and wishing that they’d had the guts to make Wahlberg play a continuation of his character from The Departed.