Everybody wants a happy ending. But that doesn't mean that we should always get the one we want, writes Michael O'Sullivan.
Disney's revisionist "Maleficent" took the "Sleeping Beauty" story that inspired the studio's own 1959 animated classic and turned it upside down.
Kumail Nanjiani is the best thing about "Men in Black: International. "
Mary Poppins Returns works hard to evoke the charms of the original 1964 film: it replicates many of them, in slavish fashion.
Does Robin Hood, with its subtext of populism, have anything to say about the current cultural moment?
Where?s the spoonful of sugar, you may wonder, to help this medicine go down?
In Zambia, a young girl is sent to a "witch camp" in this parable about female subjugation.
The film lavishes attention where it belongs: on the wearable, at times almost sculptural objects he created.
The action sequel about a retired black-ops agent/avenging angel works on a primal level.
In the film, an epilogue which goes on longer than is strictly necessary to make its point underscores the sweet, ironic sadness of this strange little love story. ...
"Eating Animals" makes a compelling case for an American farming overhaul with more than just gruesome images.
Written in what Diablo Cody describes as a "postpartum fog," the movie arose out of the writer's personal experience.
PacificRim: Uprising is loud, packed with impressive effects and propulsive, but it lacks the heart of Del Toro?s original.
Sometimes a film delivers its most powerful message wordlessly, but more often, movie moments are made by the words that are spoken - or shouted.
There are holiday movies, and then there are holiday movies.
This moribund movie doesn’t have a spontaneous, surprising or genuine bone in its body.
A movie doesn?t have to be rated ?R? to be scary, but it should have a villain who doesn?t remind you of the test-tube love child of Voldemort.
For reasons that have nothing to do with destructive power or hair colour, 'Atomic Blonde' is no 'Wonder Woman'.
This R-rated comic book of a female-centred spy thriller is as chilly and joyless as the ice bath in which we first meet the title character.
Like yet another cold, sugary soft drink, the animated sequel Despicable Me 3 is only satisfying in direct proportion to one?s thirst.
Maudie, a fact-based drama about the late Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis and her strange relationship with her husband, is a charming tale.
The Gifted is a clever, if less than brilliant film. Its true genius lies not in what?s on the page, but in its humanity
The Lego Batman Movie looks and feels like it could only have been put together by a roomful of mad geniuses, moving in a ballet of well-choreographed creativity. ...
Rosewater is both a faithful and a forceful adaptation of Then They Came For Me, the 2011 memoir of Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari.
This drama inspired by a true story begins and ends with innuendo.