Gary King (Simon Pegg) has built up a long-ago pub crawl called the Golden Mile as the greatest night ever. He convinces his friends—Andy (Nick Frost), Steven (Paddy Considine), Oliver (Martin Freeman), and Peter (Eddie Marsan)—to revisit that night. They're a few pints in when the killer robots attack. On the surface, the apocalyptic, increasingly drunken The World's End is a funnier, smarter Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And the movie is phenomenally, relentlessly funny. Dig a bit more, and it's an affecting movie about how you can't go home again, even if your crappy hometown isn't literally besieged by mindless automatons. (ERIK HENRIKSEN)