What "Crisis" really is about is the opioid crisis from the three angles that it needs to be seen from to get a helicopter perspective. The first is from the research and commerce side which Oldman is embroiled with. The second is Armie Hammer as an undercover agent working in enforcement for the DEA trying to trap some dealers by posing as one. The third is a mother played by Evangeline Lilly who undergoes a trauma which brings her in a way into the orbit of Hammer's op, albeit peripherally

Here the idea of a person of Mauritania (alas "The Mauritanian"), which actually is a country on the Northwest Coast of Africa next to Algiers, is accused of being one of the masterminds behind direct phone connections to Osama Bin Laden through a sat phone (and, by extension, to the 9/11 attacks).

Like their previous collaboration with "Captain Phillips", Hanks and director Paul Greengrass try to keep the action and journey as grounded as possible. With the exception of a few massive overhead CG shots, it keeps with them on the trail or over a fire. The movie has scope but it plays in intimate terms.

The texture of "Waiting For The Barbarians" is an interesting one because it uses the backdrop of what should be North Africa but seemingly in an apocalyptic setting of sorts but a retro one in others (where technology doesn't exist). The eyes of the piece are through Mark Rylance's administrator.

Rogen understands how to share the screen and be generous, even when he is playing against himself.The premise of "An American Pickle" reflects this literally. Ben's great grandfather returns to modern day Brooklyn because of a pickle mishap. If you actually think of it, the set up is very heartbreaking yet disturbingly and wonderfully nonsensical.

With "Greyhound" which details a crossing of the Atlantic corridor during World War II, Hanks plays the captain of a ship (called "Greyhound") whose job it is to oversee and in a way cut off attacks on the ships (including the supply chain) by elusive U-Boats.