From Minority Report to Inception, here are some action movies that are a little more intellectual than most.

The first good look at Batman: Hush, the next entry in the popular series of animated DC Universe Movies, has arrived thanks to the epic first trailer. Not only do fans get plenty of shots of their favorite heroes (and antiheroes) in action, this trailer also introduces one of the most intellectually challenging villains that Batman has ever faced in the mysterious Hush. An adaptation of the seminal DC classic tale, Batman: Hush centers on a shadowy new villain who uses Gotham’s Rogues Gallery to destroy Batman’s crime-fighting career, as well as Bruce Wayne’s personal life – …

In 2009, days before production was about to begin, production on Steven Soderbergh’s adaptation of Moneyball was put on hold. Soderbergh wanted to put elements like interviews with real-life players into the movies, and that made Sony skittish, so they fired him and replaced him with Bennett Miller with Aaron Sorkin working on the screenplay. High Flying Bird feels like it could be the movie Soderbergh wanted to make with Moneyball—an intense, cerebral, hard-hitting look at the business of sport interspersed with interviews from real athletes from that sport. The setting is now basketball instead of …