1. Rebel Ridge (2024)
After telling Nazi punks to fuck off in Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier gives the same treatment to corrupt cops in this superb western-tinged actioner, which the writer-director has described as ‘First Blood meets Michael Clayton’. Come to think of it, ‘George Clooney in Sly Stallone’s body’ isn’t a bad way to classify Aaron Pierre’s star-making turn as an ex-Marine jerked around by a band of small-town police officers, led by an exceptionally smug Don Johnson. Smartly constructed, it builds slowly to the ass-kicking and name-taking, but when it arrives, hoo boy is it satisfying.