Action Picks

Kitao Sakurai throws Ryu, Ken and Chun-Li into the World Warrior Tournament, a brutal clash of fists wrapped around a deadly conspiracy. This is a straight-ahead action film built on kinetic hand-to-hand combat, with Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo and David Dastmalchian trading blows in English on the big screen. It goes for spectacle over subtlety, which is exactly what you want here.

Destin Daniel Cretton pushes Peter Parker into a darker turn as an unseen villain threatens the city and everyone he loves, and the set pieces are built for a big screen in English. It sits at 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.0 on IMDb, so the kinetic sci-fi action lands. Catching it takes effort this week: it is playing at a single venue with only a handful of slots, so plan ahead.