Edge of Tomorrow, Doug Liman's 2014 sci-fi action film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, has re-emerged as one of streaming's most enduring rewatch favourites twelve years on. The film's appeal lies in its inventive time-loop premise, which sees Cruise's character die repeatedly and restart the same day, giving the story a replayable, ever-fresh quality that critics and audiences have continued to embrace since its cinema release.

Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka's novel All You Need Is Kill, the 113-minute film casts Cruise as Major William Cage, a reluctant military PR officer thrust into a brutal war against an alien race called the Mimics. After being killed on his first day of combat, Cage becomes trapped in a loop, reliving the same catastrophic battle until he can find a way to break free, aided by Emily Blunt's battle-hardened Sergeant Rita Vrataski.