With elements of horror and melodrama, “Let Him Go” is a gripping thriller and blood-curdler more than a tearjerker, although at times it attempts to become one.

Ever since “Birdbox” was released on Netflix in mid-December, people have been debating whether it holds a candle to “A Quiet Place,” which made its theatrical debut in April 2018.

You don’t really know anyone in “Gone Girl,” at least until the film’s litany of tricks and twists and turns run its course. “Gone Girl” begins as one film and ends as another, with a radical shift thrown in the middle for good measure.

When most people hear “pirates,” they probably picture something along the lines of eye patches, 18th-century ships and Captain Jack Sparrow. The heart-pounding new thriller “Captain Phillips” is a sobering reminder that piracy is still alive and well (and often necessary for survival) in some of the world’s most impoverished regions.