Action Picks

Zach Cregger drops medical courier Bryan into a single horrifying night that collapses into chaos, and the whole film runs on forward pressure and fight-to-survive tension. It leans horror and thriller with a science fiction backbone, so expect kinetic panic over slow build. The dark and the sound design hit hardest on a big screen.

Christopher Nolan's crime thriller pits Batman against Heath Ledger's Joker in a city-wide war of nerves and escalating set pieces, and it holds up as one of the great action spectacles at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and 9.1 on IMDb. This is a returning classic worth catching on the largest screen you can find for the scale and the chaos. Note that screenings are very limited this week, so plan around a single window.