The Rhythm Section

The Rhythm Section (2020) — watch online on iFILM. Director Reed Morano's spy thriller stars Blake Lively as Stephanie Patrick, a woman who lost her entire family in a plane crash three years ago and has been falling apart ever since. Then a journalist tells her the crash wasn't an accident.

The bomb maker is still alive, somewhere in London. Stephanie tracks down a former MI6 operative — Jude Law, terse and reluctant — who agrees to train her. Sterling K. Brown plays a CIA handler with his own agenda. Based on Mark Burnell's novel of the same name, the film follows Stephanie not as someone who becomes a weapon overnight but as someone who keeps failing, recovering, and going back for more. The action sequences are shot close and unglamorous — Morano's background in cinematography shows in almost every frame.

Lively earned the physical role through months of preparation, and it reads on screen: this Stephanie gets hurt, makes mistakes, and doesn't always win. That grounded register separates The Rhythm Section from the more polished end of the genre. Stream The Rhythm Section (2020) online on iFILM.