The Stranger

Hollywood dumps its shittiest product in January—kids’ movies that parents refuse to sit through, action movies too dumb even for July. Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, then, is a double treat: It’s an artful and fun action-thriller—in between the rewarding bursts of brutal violence, you can marvel at the jazzy, inventive score—starring a kick-ass woman, and it’s not The Devil Inside. An all-star cast (Michael Douglas! Channing “I am too a star” Tatum! Michael Fassbender! Antonio Banderas’s beard!) joins mixed martial artist Gina Carano in a beautifully shot globe-trotting spy flick too good for its own month of release. (See Movie Times) by Paul Constant

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