The Fall Guy (2024)

As battle-scarred stuntman Col Seavers, Ryan Gosling does his gormless The Nice Guys schtick that he is so good at, and with terrific chemistry between him and Emily Blunt's Jody Moreno - she's the lead actress of a film-in-production that Seavers is working on - this romantic comedy action blockbuster overcomes its middle-stretch of ennui (during a stunt sequence set in Sydney, Australia, the film starts to feel like it has no place to go) and becomes, ultimately, utterly charming.

★★★★☆ 

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The Wall (2017)

A small crumbling wall is the only thing protecting an American soldier from an Iraqi super sniper in this thriller with a unique premise, but the psychological tension is lessened by two things: the not very likely nor insightful exchanges that take place via earpiece between the two adversaries, and the litany of rookie mistakes made by the American soldier which by movie's end proves such a comprehensive list it can not simply be dismissed as the result of the soldier's youth, his being wounded, his fear, nor his dehydration from being stuck in the searing desert heat.

★★☆☆☆

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