X-Men: Apocalypse Is a So-So Superhero Slugfest
Plus, Alice Through the Looking Glass is short on magic, and Roots is profoundly powerful.
This week at the movies, we’ve got mutant mayhem (X-Men: Apocalypse, starring James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) and a return to Wonderland (Alice Through the Looking Glass, starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp). What do the critics have to say?
What’s Hot on TV
Also Opening This Week In Limited Release
- , a documentary about an 85-year-old man searching the desert for a treasure his father claimed to have found in 1931, is at 100 percent.
- , a documentary about the retirement home employee who became a YouTube star, is at 89 percent.
- , a documentary about the celebrated Chinese filmmaker, is at 80 percent.
- , a dramedy about six well-heeled Greeks aboard a boat who engage in an ill-defined but heated competition, is at 77 percent.
- , starring Clémence Poésy and David Morrissey in a thriller about the twisted relationships between two couples in the same apartment building, is at 74 percent.
- , a documentary about attorney Steven Wise and his attempt to get legal protection for animals, is at 71 percent.
- , a fictionalized retelling of Palestinian Muhammad Assaf’s attention-grabbing run on Arab Idol, is at 71 percent.
- , a drama about three Holocaust survivors who reunite years later at a French seaside town, is at 60 percent.
- , a documentary about a man who spent nearly 25 years as the videographer for a cult, is at 58 percent.




