This year’s Oscars showed us that now, more than ever, films are being made to a standard that matches any period in Hollywood’s golden history. This means that whenever you go see or rent a new film you may be watching a bona fide classic in the making.

Fresh from his scene stealing turn in The Departed, Mark Wahlberg takes lead billing in this Jason Bourne style action thriller about a government sharp shooter wrongly accused of assassinating the US president.

When a black ops mission...