It wasn't the choppers . . .

Kong: Skull Island

Crit

Call it Ape-ocalypse Now. Set in 1973, at the moment Nixon declared peace in Southeast Asia, the film includes some Vietnamese locations, but it might have been shot in Carlsbad Caverns, so insistently does it echo the war's greatest film. It must have been a challenge, in fact, to assemble a soundtrack that did not overlap with that one. (Though in doing so, they gave a late musical shout out to the best antiwar comedy.)

Perhaps the most notable aspect of this film is its endorsement of the proposition that the female lead's jaws can be squarer and broader than the male's.

Trailer

• Sleight--Dude's got powers!