Allegiant

The dauntless heroine of Divergent and Insurgent (Shailene Woodley) continues her fight against whatever she was fighting against in the first two movies (and the trilogy of novels by Veronica Roth). Fans of the books will probably find this chapter satisfactory (though it follows the annoying practice of covering only about half of Roth’s final book in the series; the rest, renamed Ascendant, is due out next year). For nonfans, it’s like a set of illustrations for a book they haven’t read and don’t care about; characters are too paper-thin for even major talents like Jeff Daniels, Naomi Watts, Miles Teller and Octavia Spencer to breathe life into, and Roth’s insanely complicated plot fails to hold the attention of a disinterested observer. The cheesy visual effects look state-of-the-art for 1968. J.L.