“…benefits hugely from the addition of martial-arts master Donnie Yen.”

“Mr. Smith goes West, rather than to Washington.”

“…unspools images that are as evocative as the movie’s title.”

“…enough oogly landscapes and googly creatures to power two Star Wars pictures and half a Dune.”

“A nasty, eerie Clint Eastwood Western…”

“A strange new world weirdly unfolds in Fantastic Planet…”

“A work of blockbuster auteurism…”

“There’s a smaller story about solace buried somewhere in here, but Phase Four has no interest in that.”

“Rao Jr. and Teja are like burly trapeze artists…”

“A movie about ideas and inventions that has too much of both…”