Chaos reigns below while people bicker above. In suspense/thriller I.S.S., nuclear war breaks out on Earth between Russia and the United States while six astronauts, three from America and three from Russia, are working on the International Space Station.

In and of itself, that’s a cool idea for a film and director Gabriela Cowperthwaite toys with the concept in a quasi-3-on-3 death match sort of way. The United States versus Russia, more than 250 miles above our heads. Tickets are…

Under F. Gary Gray’s direction, Lift, the fourth Netflix film in Kevin Hart’s production deal with the streaming service, appears to, well, “lift” its look and feel from other heist movies we have watched many times before. With an ensemble cast that slots characters into one particular task, we have essentially a Fast & Furious movie, dropping cars and instead using an obnoxiously large plane. (Incidentally, Gray directed The Fate of the Furious in 2017.)

Lift is the movie with a…