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5th Wave, The

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth decimated. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.


The critical consensus

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 teen-lit sludge.

**(*)(*)(*)Olly Richards, Empire Online, 18/01/2016

Serviceable YA actioner, with Chloë Grace Moretz and Maika Monroe amongst the ass-kickers.

***(*)(*)James Mottram, The List, 21/01/2016

Machine-tooled for teens, this dystopian sci-fi starring Chloë Grace Moretz starts well but wipes out in the closing minutes.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 21/01/2016

Chloë Grace Moretz is sunk by dull teen sci-fi wave.

**(*)(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 22/01/2016

Chloë Grace Moretz battles teen-hating space invaders in this clunky adaptation of a YA fantasy.

**(*)(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 24/01/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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