Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Beneath Doug Liman's kinetic combat set-pieces lies an unexpectedly grim meditation on soldierly exhaustion and muscle memory. Tom Cruise's cowardly publicist is systematically battered into competence, but the psychological toll of dying hundreds of beach invasions registers deeply in his glazed, unblinking eyes. His eventual bond with Rita Vrataski is anchored by the tragic isolation of knowing that only someone who has shared this fatal loop can comprehend its soul-crushing weight.