We need more action movies like 'The Old Guard'
This groundbreaking summer blockbuster proves that diversity enhances the action genre.

It begins like a perfect everyday life: shared meals, laughter, tender gestures. Small cracks start to appear — a gaze that drifts, a gesture too sharp, a cup falling. Tension slowly rises, almost imperceptibly. Arguments linger, silences grow heavy. Then violence erupts, sudden but silent. The victim hides, tries to call for help, but the aggressor catches them. Time goes on outside: the city moves, neighbors laugh, indifferent. A final jump cut shows the aggressor with another woman in the same apartment — the repetition of inevitability.
This groundbreaking summer blockbuster proves that diversity enhances the action genre.
This is a film that is going to leave some people bored, and some people thrilled.
Although bogged down by a slow pace and moralistic intent, ‘Deadly Garage Sale’ (2022) makes the most of its silly and nonsensical premise.
Amberley Snyder, a young woman whose injury leaves her with a disability, shows viewers that her handicapped state won't stop her from competition.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.