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By Witney Seibold (272) for CraveOnline (813) on 21 Jan 2016

The 5th Wave' comes with its own standardized set of recent-yet-worn clichés about brave teens, the power of love, and a heroine who, despite…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 21 Jan 2016

No amount of 'hard PG-13' atrocities and leftfield homages to John Carpenter's 'They Live' can save a film that, in trying to be more than…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 21 Jan 2016

The 5th Wave finds a way to make the most of Moretz’s talents, with the emotionality she showed in If I Stay and the utter physical chutzpah…

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By Clark Collis (94) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 21 Jan 2016

The frankly preposterous nature of the film’s setup is rendered slightly less so by a couple of second act reveals…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 21 Jan 2016

Aside from a taste for Visual Storytelling 101 basics (a close-up of a dropped teddy bear, held for what seems like half a minute), British…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Jan 2016

Moretz strikes a convincing empowered-badass pose but has no amount of charismatic fearsomeness can energize the illogical latter portions…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Jan 2016

Director J Blakeson can't quite maintain the film's momentum while squaring its disparate parts, malleable story rules (weren't all power sources…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 21 Jan 2016

The apocalypse, in its effect on Cassie, mainly takes the form of a been-there, done-that checklist of Young Adult story tropes, and none of…

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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 21 Jan 2016

It’s tough to stay focused on the provocative bits when soapy talk of teenage yearning and angst keep making us snicker…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for The Verge (432) on 21 Jan 2016

The action is frequently too chaotic to register, and the performances are monotonal. There's no personality in this story, or the way it's told…

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By Andy Webster (339) for The New York Times (9,847) on 21 Jan 2016

It’s depressing to see Ms…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 21 Jan 2016

The undercaffeinated middle of the film consists of dopey twists, slow-burning gazes and dialogue that aims for “heartfelt” but comes out…

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By Steve Newton (322) for Georgia Straight (1,078) on 21 Jan 2016

It's disasters like this that make you welcome any conquering species, as long as they agree to vapourize Hollywood first…

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By Mikel Zorrilla (231) for Espinof (390) on 21 Jan 2016

The 5th Wave is 2016's first flop. [Full review in Spanish]…

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By Alex Zane (472) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 21 Jan 2016

Moretz is an enjoyably feisty heroine and there is all the fun you might expect in playing guess the alien…

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By Elliott Noble (448) for Sky Cinema (1,726) on 21 Jan 2016

While scoring highly on pace and atmosphere, many questions remain unanswered…

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By Philippa Hawker (221) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 20 Jan 2016

There are some clunky or abruptly compressed revelations, and Evan's flashback story is dispatched far too quickly…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 20 Jan 2016

It’s all so obvious and (unintentionally) laugh-out-loud funny...Seriously, if you’re not five steps ahead of The Fifth Wave, you need…

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By Olly Richards (291) for Empire (3,446) on 18 Jan 2016

Everything that comes after the confident, dangerous first half-hour just makes you pine for what could have been as this devolves into ten-a-penny…

Review of The 5th Wave (2016)

By Harry Windsor (30) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Jan 2016

Director J Blakeson...might be making franchise bait but he exhibits a relatively restrained reliance on spectacle, and the screenplay by Jeff…

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