The Accountant

The Accountant is the most unusual action film on this list: Ben Affleck plays an autistic forensic accountant who moonlights as a lethal assassin, and the film plays both elements completely straight. The combination of Affleck methodically uncooking the books for criminal organizations and then dispatching hitmen with sniper-precise efficiency should not work, but it does — largely because Affleck’s restrained, socially awkward performance makes the character feel genuine rather than gimmicky. Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) directs the action with clean, no-nonsense staging, and the mystery of Christian Wolff’s past unfolds as a satisfying puzzle alongside the combat sequences.