“Zootopia”

PG, 1:48, animated

Somehow, Disney has managed to pull off a hard-boiled police procedural thriller about political corruption starring an adorable, large-eyed bunny. Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) is a plucky bunny who sets her sights on life in the big city of Zootopia, making the world a better place as a police officer. Judy throws herself headlong into an investigation of missing mammals, specifically one Emmet Otterton, with the aid of wise-cracking fox Nick (Jason Bateman). One of the strongest messages is about discrimination and not judging someone by a stereotype. And as the heart of the story, Judy's boundless enthusiasm and can-do attitude keep the story properly on message. — Katie Walsh

“London Has Fallen” 1/2

R, 1:40, action

The frenzied sequel to 2013's “Olympus Has Fallen,” which returns Gerard Butler to his role as Mike Banning, the U.S. president's infallible protector, works on a very low level of bloodthirsty escapism. When the president (Aaron Eckhart) attends the funeral of the British prime minister, he and a collection of world leaders come under siege in an astonishingly well-coordinated act of terrorism masterminded by a Pakistani arms dealer (Alon Aboutboul). This screenplay never figured out how to do its job correctly — that is, to build suspense and deliver the gory money shots in such a way that we don't start dwelling on the paranoid, bellicose worldview baked into the premise. — Michael Phillips

“Deadpool” 1/2

R, 1:48, comedy

“Deadpool” is a movie about an unkillable wisenheimer who never shuts up. Showcasing a character born in a 1991 Marvel Comics “New Mutants” installment, the routine revenge fantasy positions itself as the outsider Marvel franchise wannabe. Early on, Wade Wilson, played by Ryan Reynolds, learns he has late-stage cancer and hooks up with a sadistic scientist who subjects him to a series of torture sequences. He's immortal and the cancer's gone. But so is his face and skin, and the sociopath Deadpool is born. But at least Reynolds is entertaining. — M.P.

“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”

R, 1:51, comedy

The film stars Tina Fey as Kim Baker, a battle-untested TV news producer and writer thrown into the war correspondent game in Afghanistan. Here and there, the directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa capture the keyed-up camaraderie of its setting, and the dislocating strangeness of what it must be like to drop into a U.S.-led conflict as a reporter, inside the mess yet outside it. Alas, most of the film settles for comic dithering and hoked-up romance under fire. Writer Robert Carlock based his script, very loosely, on “The Taliban Shuffle,” former Chicago Tribune correspondent Kim Barker's 2011 memoir. — M.P.

“Gods of Egypt”

PG-13, 2:07, action

We're in ancient Egypt, mythological division. Big cheese Osiris (Australian native Bryan Brown) is about to bequeath the kingdom to his benevolent son Horus (Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). But the war-mongering brother of Osiris shows up; he's mean ol' Uncle Set, played by Scottish-born Gerard Butler, and Set is set on causing tsuris for Osiris. He kills him, and the queen, and yanks out the shining eyeballs of Horus for good measure. The rest of “Gods of Egypt” relays how Horus gets his orbs and his kingdom back. The film doesn't have the energy or delirium to qualify as entertaining crap. — M.P.