Mike Schulz talks with Dave Levora and Darren Pitra about the films he’s reviewed this week. Before they get rolling, Levora informs Schulz that an unidentified, unsolicited caller had texted him to convey to MS that Bad Boys: Ride or Die was his jam. Thanks, Identity Redacted!

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• Hit Man, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, and Retta, the film was released last year and is currently streaming on Netflix. “A crowd-pleaser like no other,” Schulz says, lamenting the fact that he didn’t see this film in the theaters — which would put him on the same footing as many Americans, come to think of it. “So massively entertaining,” he says, having seen it four times within the space of a week.
  
• Bad Boys: Ride or Die, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, aka Adil and Bilall, and starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Joe Pantoliano, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Jacob Scipio, and DJ Khaled. Schulz enjoyed this one compared to the preceding two, as Smith and Lawrence appear unable to get enough of each other. Can you believe it’s nearly been thirty years since the last film? As for whether or not the nation should forgive Smith, Schulz is willing to split the difference, saying he isn’t sure what to think of WS as a human being; but as a movie star, his chops are unassailable.
  
• The Watchers, directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan and starring Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouéré, and Oliver Finnegan. For better and for worse, Ishana is every bit the filmmaker as her dad, M Knight. Approach accordingly.
  

As for previews:

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• Inside Out 2, a coming-of-age animation from Pixar, directed by Kelsey Mann and featuring the voice-work of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, and Kensington Tallman. Levora wants to know: Who asked for this? Salient question, DL. Schulz says this sequel has more of a right to exist than a lot of relatively recent Pixar films.
  
• Tuesday, a 2023 fantasy-drama directed by Daina O Pusić (in her feature directorial début) and starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus “in a profoundly moving performance,” Lola Petticrew, Leah Harvey, and Arinzé Kene. Confronting Death is its theme. Flip a coin?
  
• Treasure, a Franco-German tragicomedy directed by Julia von Heinz and starring Lena Dunham, Stephen Fry, and Zbigniew Zamachowski. If the French and the Germans can put up with Dunham, then who are you to resist it?
  
• Brats, the Andrew McCarthy documentary about the Brat Pack actors of the Eighties (excluding Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson); and
  
• The Blue Angels, a documentary by Paul Crowder about the Navy’s Blue Angels pilots. Several minutes are given over to the three stalwarts discussing their experiences among the Blue Angels’ crowds.
  

“Hit Man,” “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” and “The Watchers”