Our critics selected their favorite films this week, from wide releases to one-time showings, and we have the details on when and where to see all of them. If the 23 options below aren’t enough, you could also check out The Nordic Heritage Museum’s Nordic Lights Film Festival, the “basically unintelligible warfare and death and brightly colored explosions” in Michael Bay’s 13 Hours, or the other films on our movie times listings.
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1. The 5th Wave
“In the science fiction movie The 5th Wave, the aliens are not nice but very destructive. They want all humans to be dead. They mean business. Earth has real value to them, and they do not want to share any of it with the “third chimpanzee” (let alone the second or the first). That’s the whole story. And the people who bankrolled The 5th Wave, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz, hope that it “will do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires.” – Charles Mudede
2. Ride Along 2
“What’s particularly effective here is the staging: both action and slapstick exist in solid, comprehensibly established spaces. That may seem like faint praise, but even prestige blockbusters these days get sloppy with that stuff, and it’s nice to see good fundamentals in what could easily have been a cash-in sequel.” – Ben Coleman
