Action Picks

Mutiny is a lean revenge thriller: Jason Statham's Cole Reed is framed for his boss's murder and boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade that uncovers an international conspiracy. That's a tight, high-stakes premise built for momentum and hard-hitting action, and Statham delivers this kind of role in his sleep. It's showing in English in Paris and is one of the more widely available films this week, so it's an easy catch.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is Sergio Leone at full power: three men hunting $200,000 in gold across a Civil War landscape, building to one of cinema's great standoffs. At a 97% critics score and an 8.8 IMDb, it's a payoff-driven epic that rewards the scale of a theater, with Eastwood, Van Cleef and Wallach circling each other for over two and a half hours. It runs long and takes its time, but the tension and the finale earn it — and it's playing in English in Paris with solid availability this week.