Top 10 Movies: Action
The highest-graded action movies we have reviewed, best first.
Django UnchainedTarantino's spaghetti-western revenge fantasy, powered by two career-best villains and a bounty hunter for the ages.Read the review
The OdysseyNolan takes on the oldest story ever told and makes it feel like the newest.
Inglourious BasterdsFive chapters of weaponized conversation, and the best opening scene of its century.
The Dark KnightThe superhero film that stopped being one and became a crime epic instead.
The MatrixA philosophy seminar smuggled inside the best action design of its decade, and both halves still work.
Saving Private RyanThe Omaha Beach landing rewrote combat filmmaking; the sentimental frame around it is the weaker part.
InceptionA heist film built out of architecture, grief, and rules it never once cheats on.
Avengers: Infinity WarTen years of setup spent in one film, structured as the villain's story and ending on a loss.
The Dark Knight RisesOperatic, imperfect, and enormous; the trilogy finale earns its size.
V for VendettaHugo Weaving acts an entire performance through a fixed plastic grin, and it works.
