Captain Phillips could easily have been a simplistic action/rescue thriller or a maudlin made-for-TV potboiler, but instead it's a powerful film even as it tries to strip the mythmaking out of a very human event that became a larger-than-life media moment.

Reversing the console ban is only a small chip in the high-stakes economic game the People's Republic is playing with the Shanghai FTZ-and the console ban has gone on so long that it's possible the Chinese market has turned away from consoles altogether.