Those Who Wish Me Dead

The “ludicrous but propulsive” new action film starring Angelina Jolie “does what Hollywood has always done to her: doubt her abilities,” said Shirley Li in TheAtlantic .com. The A-list actress plays a firefighter who parachutes into wildfires, yet even after her character pledges to protect a teenager from assassins, she “sees little action.” Instead, she runs, cowers, and becomes more motherly, reflecting an industrywide “lack of imagination” about how to deploy an older female action star. (In theaters or via HBO Max) R