The Sea of Trees
Fake, forced and dreary suicide drama that will bore you to death
Movies
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
Love (3D)
Visually striking, overtly risqué, pointlessly self-referential and gratuitous
Steve Jobs
A mesmerizing study of the high cost of genius