ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)
Released only a month ago, while Charlize Theron going all John Wick on us may be most remembered for its balletic, Krav Maga theatrics and cool lighting, let’s not forget the setting: 1989, right at the end of the Cold War, in snowy Berlin fighting not just sinister Ruskies but also some very dubious Brits and Americans. American Assassin may not be a period piece like Atomic Blonde but they’re most certainly both playing in the same spy thriller wheelhouse, even if they’re thirty years apart and not quite stylistically equal.