Say this for Cassie Sullivan (Chloë Grace Moretz): no matter how bad things get during the alien-wrought apocalypse, her hair looks great. And usually, her lipstick as well. Lucky thing, too, since she spends a fair portion of the film in the company of Evan Walker, the world’s prettiest hunk (Alex Roe). The good looks are put to good use, distracting the viewer from the holes in the already ludicrous plot, the hilarity of things like kiddie-sized military uniforms ready to hand, and the heaviness of the narration. (“How do you rid the world of humans? First, you rid the humans of their humanity.”) Additional distraction is provided by more moral morass than usual: Cassie opens the film by shooting someone before she’s sure he’s a bad guy, a young man is asked to kill a child on the grounds that he’s hosting the enemy, etc. But it’s not nearly enough. (2016) — Matthew Lickona