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"Bad Boys: Ride or Die," "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" & "Run Lola Run" 25th Anniversary Re-Release

From left: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024); Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024); Franka Potente in Run Lola Run (1998).
Bad Boys: Ride or Die, Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Westbrook Studios/Sony Pictures, 2024. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Domain Entertainment/Kennedy Miller Mitchell/
Warner Bros. Pictures, 2024. Run Lola Run, Arte/WDR/X-Filme Creative Pool/Columbia TriStar/Sony Pictures, 1998.
From left: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024); Anya Taylor-Joy in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024); Franka Potente in Run Lola Run (1998).

The summer movie season is in high gear, as you can tell from all the noises of crashing cars and gunshots emanating from your local multiplex. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss three films that are currently in release—the first being Bad Boys: Ride or Die, the second being George Miller’s prequel Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and the third being the re-release of Tom Tykwer’s imaginative and energetic action film Run Lola Run.

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  • Much has been made about George Miller’s latest action spectacle, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” not setting the box office alight. It’s too bad, Nathan Weinbender says, because it’s a brilliantly made epic that’s so much richer—and faster—than most Hollywood blockbusters.