Vibrant Afro-Latinx culture, eye-popping visuals, and toe-tapping songs from Lin Manuel-Miranda intersect with one of the House of Mouse's most original and meaningful stories in quite some time with 'Encanto',…
Bland, inoffensive, and familiar, theme park ride turned movie ‘Jungle Cruise’ feels as bumpy and predictable as a trip on one of Disneyland’s oldest rides.
Emma Stone is simply incandescent in this Cruella De Vil origin story that exceeds the reach of its potentially lame premise. With a pair of head-turning performances from Stone and…
Disney Animation Studios one-ups their craftsmanship in the Asian-set adventure 'Raya and the Last Dragon', a beautiful-to-look-at effort that feels decidedly borrowed from establishment narratives. The jokey aspect works less…
2019 delivered three Disney live-action remakes, Dumbo, Aladdin, and Lion King, and all three were big old failures in my book. This despite the fact that they made jaw-dropping amounts of cash at the international box office. If this latest look at Mulan is any indication of things going forward, perhaps the studio has found...
The sure-to-be-popular Disney sequel checks pretty much all the boxes a good sequel should, going in a darker (though still highly risk-averse) direction in a follow-up that cannot really live up to…
‘The Lion King’ is a tale of technological wonder and complete and utter creative indifference. A carbon copy from tail to toe that boasts dazzling effects, the film sees innovator…
Guy Ritchie’s ‘Aladdin’ is an offensive and art-devoid “adaptation” that, by academic law, should be failed by virtue of gross plagiarism. Phony performances, cheap production design, bad visual effects, unpleasant…
Sentimental but emotionally vacant, Tim Burton’s live-action rendition of Dumbo makes the story of the flying elephant longer without adding much. Bad child acting, an artificial hue that leaves the…
Disney’s ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ is the cinematic equivalent of clickbait - you just can’t help yourself but follow it down the rabbit hole. Its easy nostalgia-fueled laughs, clever world-building,…