Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is two movie stars throwing kitchen knives at each other for two hours, and the plot is mostly there to hand them more knives. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have so much chemistry the house can’t survive it: their big fight wrecks every room, and it’s easily the best scene in the movie. Everything around it is thinner. Two rival agencies, a target named Benjamin, a fuzzy double cross, and none of it matters next to the dinner where both of them are quietly trying to figure out what the other one knows. Vince Vaughn steals his scenes as John’s partner who still lives with his mom. The last shootout in a giant home store goes on forever. It made $487.3 million worldwide, so clearly people came for the couple and not the spy stuff. A 6.1 because the stars are electric and the movie around them is a screensaver. $1,207 says you look at your partner a little differently the next time they say they’re working late.

What works: Pitt and Jolie’s chemistry, the house-wrecking fight, and Vince Vaughn as a hired gun who still lives with his mom.

What doesn’t: The spy plot is paper thin, and the final shootout in a home store drags well past the point of being fun.

Who it’s for: Couples who want an action movie for date night, and anyone who has ever argued over whose turn it is to do the dishes.