Review: The 5th Wave Washes Out

“I miss the Cassie I was,” laments the Cassie that is at the start of The 5th Wave. The present Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) has just killed someone (Matthew Zuk), identified only as “Wounded Man with Crucifix”. This young man appears in Cassie's

“I miss the Cassie I was,” laments the Cassie that is at the start of The 5th Wave. The present Cassie (Chloë Grace Moretz) has just killed someone (Matthew Zuk), identified only as “Wounded Man with Crucifix”. This young man appears in Cassie's

“Who can give me the derivative of X?” a high-school teacher asks early in the YA-apocalypse mashup The 5th Wave. As soon as she asks that, the lights blink off, everybody's cellphones die and jets tumble from the sky. We never hear a student respond

“Who can give me the derivative of X?” a high-school teacher asks early in the YA-apocalypse mashup The 5th Wave. As soon as she asks that, the lights blink off, everybody's cellphones die and jets tumble from the sky. We never hear a student respond

Chuck Zlotnick/Columbia Pictures(NEW YORK) — Based on a popular series of books by Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave stars Chloë Grace Moretz, normally terrific in everything she does, as Cassie, a high school freshman thrown into a grave and catastrophic