I Am a Hero
Managing to make a zombie movie touching, funny, emotional, and tense is no small feat, but Sato pulls it off
Movies
Captain America: Civil War
Not particularly entertaining, but at least its dramatically coherent
The Sea of Trees
Fake, forced and dreary suicide drama that will bore you to death
The Revenant
Most excellent storytelling
Zootopia
A hugely entertaining, Pixar-level effort from Disney Animation
The 5th Wave
The first half hour of this dystopian alien-invasion tale goes well, but it soon devolves into a hokey mess
Cop Car
Kevin Bacon, in a silly moustache, exercises his darkly comic side as the bent but not-too-smart sheriff
45 Years
A gentle examination of long-term marriage and its falsehoods
Mr. Holmes
Too many bland, overlapping stories that don’t mesh, and a general dourness overall
Sicario
Art-house action-suspense thriller with a message
Room
A poetic and profound film of many little wonders
The Big Short
This bit of edu-tainment leaves you amused, but thinking