Family Rated PG
“Scorsese has pulled out all the stops – and keeps yanking.
Family Rated G
Has poor party etiquette ever been so costly? In this Disney classic, a king and queen fail to invite the sorceress Maleficent to a celebration for their newborn daughter, so she puts a sleeping curse on the child. It comes true years later, despite the best efforts of three kindly fairies. Sleeping Beauty, also known
Before kids could go on YouTube and stumble across, well, just about anything, Bambi was likely the first pop-cultural artifact to impart upon young minds the knowledge of good and evil. It’s not just Bambi’s mother – I’ll pause while you wipe that tear – but the film’s revelation that idylls don’t really exist. Hunters
"Disney does Shakespeare, and not too badly either."
"…has so many CGI penguins that we might as well be watching the latest version of Angry Birds."
“Rio gives its young audience members what they’ll ‘like,’ not what they deserve.
“Given Pixar’s track record, it would be easy to forgive Cars 2 as a swing and a miss. Yet the movie is more disconcerting than that.
“Visually astonishing – and I have to confess it’s thanks in part to the use of 3-D.
"In terms of plot, Megamind is only slightly less complicated than Inception."
"No wonder I couldn’t tell what Despicable Me was about when I saw its first trailer. The finished movie itself doesn’t even know."
