Movies opening this week: ‘5th Wave,’ ‘Dirty Grandpa,’ ‘Anomalisa’

“The 5th Wave”

Opens at 7 p.m. Thursday

When aliens attack Earth, Chloe Grace Moretz and others decide to fight back. Based on Rick Yancey’s young-adult novel. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:52

“Dirty Grandpa”

Opens at 7 p.m. Thursday

Zac Efron is an uptight aspiring lawyer forced to take his unruly grandfather (Robert De Niro) on a road trip to Florida for spring break. Rated R. Time: 1:42.

“Anomalisa”

Opens Friday at Glenwood Arts

Charlie Kaufman (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) and Duke Johnson co-direct this Oscar-nominated tale, shot in stop-motion animation, about an isolated man who is forced out of his emotional shell. Rated R. Time: 1:30.

“The Boy”

Rated PG-13. Time: 1:38.

An American nanny (Lauren Cohan of AMC’s “The Walking Dead”) is hired by a British couple whose 8-year-old “son” is a very creepy doll that just might be alive. Rated PG-13. Time: 1:38.

“Mojave”

Opens Friday at AMC Studio 28

A troubled movie star (Garrett Hedlund) heads to the desert, where he meets a strange, possibly homicidal drifter (Oscar Isaac). Rated R. Time: 1:33.

“Theeb”

Opens Friday at the Tivoli

A boy follows his brother on a desert journey in this tense, beautiful and complex boyhood adventure set in the Ottoman Empire in 1916. Nominated for a foreign language Oscar. Unrated. Time: 1:36.

This story was originally published January 19, 2016 at 4:00 AM with the headline "Movies opening this week: ‘5th Wave,’ ‘Dirty Grandpa,’ ‘Anomalisa’."