Amusing and stylish sci-fi comedy teams an avid rookie (Tessa Thompson) and an experienced agent (Chris Hemsworth) on the titular secret force dedicated to regulating human interactions with aliens as they hunt down the extraterrestrials who assassinated a royal visitor from a distant planet.

An uplifting story, scripted by Mindy Kaling, briskly directed by Nasha Ganatra and partly based on Kaling's own experiences as a TV scribe trying to get her voice heard in an all-white, all-male writers' room. Facing cancellation (by network head Amy Ryan) and replacement (by potty-mouthed comedian Ike Barinholtz), the veteran host (Emma Thompson) of the titular show takes Kaling's character on as the single "diversity hire" in a cynical scheme to create a veneer of multiculturalism.

Chronicling the events of June 17, 2015, when a gunman opened fire during a Bible study being conducted at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, this moving documentary celebrates the lives of the victims as well as the love and forgiveness demonstrated by the survivors and family members toward the perpetrator.

Amusing antics and a lively pace make this follow-up to the 2016 original, helmed by returning director Chris Renaud, an entertaining cartoon for kids. The most prominent of the three storylines involves a fretful terrier (voice of Patton Oswalt) who learns to be more courageous when his owners take him and his mutt sidekick (voice of Eric Stonestreet) on a visit to a relative's farm and they befriend the fearless alpha canine (voice of Harrison Ford) who presides there.

Though polished and generally appealing, this musical fantasy recounting the early life of rock star Elton John (Taron Egerton) deals with his homosexuality in a way that puts it at odds with scriptural values.

Marvel Comics-based sci-fi adventure, set mostly in 1992, in which a member (Sophie Turner) of the X-Men team of mutants comes close to dying during a mission to save the crew of the space shuttle but instead emerges from the experience endowed with cosmic powers she cannot control. As she goes rogue, endangering the lives of her comrades (in particular Jennifer Lawrence), her plight causes tension within the group (led by James McAvoy).

There are more laughs than chills to be garnered from this horror tale in which the new girl in a small Ohio town (Diana Silvers) is befriended by a group of her fellow high school students (most prominently McKaley Miller and Corey Fogelmanis) and together they begin partying at the home of an adult veterinary assistant (Octavia Spencer) who turns out to be a whack job.

The messy plot of this grating sequel to 2014's "Godzilla" centers on a divorced couple (Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmiga) and their teen daughter (Millie Bobby Brown) who get caught up in a worldwide rampage by outsized monsters known as Titans. Human interest gets trampled underfoot as the lumbering creatures screech with rage and do battle with one another, courtesy of the special effects unit.