Action Picks

The End of Oak Street drops a whole suburban street into somewhere else and turns it into a survival sci-fi thriller with Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. Director David Robert Mitchell keeps the mystery tense and the stakes personal, and the widescreen strangeness of that unrecognizable landscape earns the big screen. The family-sticking-together angle risks slowing things down, but the cosmic hook keeps the tension up.

Tuner turns a piano tuner's precision into a talent for cracking safes, and that heist hook is exactly the kind of tense, kinetic thriller action fans want, backed by Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman and Jean Reno. Critics are behind it at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the crime-thriller build rewards a focused big-screen watch. Screenings are very limited this week — only a handful across a single venue — so treat these as your last chance and go now.