In an age of ever-increasing eco-anxiety, the disaster thriller is more vital than ever. Besides the apocalyptic cataclysmia witnessed in superhero movies seemingly every other month, Adam McKay’s buzzy Netflix satire “Don’t Look Up” is a hit with streaming audiences even as it was lambasted by critics. Meanwhile, “Moonfall,” the latest effort from disaster genre veteran Roland Emmerich, drops later this week.

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If you believe that the best disaster movies made today star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, then you are sorely mistaken. The action star that every film fan should be following nowadays is none other than actor Kristoffer Joner. The Norwegian actor is the star of the criminally underrated disaster film “The Wave” (on Netflix now, it’s a must-watch) and the upcoming sequel “The Quake.” And with his everyman father character, Kristian, Joner has created a hero that you not only root for but you actually care about.

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A thoughtful, deliberate thriller that manages to build on (rather than recycle) the success of its predecessor, “The Quake” succeeds where so many action sequels fail. Rather than just foisting the hero back into a similar hard-luck scenario to hit all the same beats again, a la “Die Hard 2,” “London Has Fallen,” or “Mission: Impossible 2,” “The Quake” invests in an examination of the characters and the fallout from the first film…before putting them all right back in the shit.

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Filmmaker Roar Uthaug burst onto the scene in 2016 with the Norwegian disaster film “The Wave.” His work taking strong characters and mixing them with the large action set pieces that populate most disaster films was so lauded that it landed him the coveted job of directing this year’s “Tomb Raider.” Of course, the debate still rages about the latter film’s quality, but that’s neither here nor there.

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