A giggling, sugar-high Johnny Depp may not match Gene Wilder’s performance in the 1971 adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s book – Depp projects lunacy, while Wilder embodied it – but he still turns candy maker Willy Wonka into both a faithful reading of Dahl’s creation and an offbeat invention of his own. The same goes

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A labored attempt to cash in on the legacy of 1979’s classic children’s film The Black Stallion, this Imax feature falls short even in visual terms. In what amounts to a prequel, a young girl (Biana G. Tamimi) in 1947 North Africa befriends a black colt and enters it into a prestigious local race. In

The computer whizzes at Disney and Pixar Animation Studios don’t take many risks with this sequel, exploring the same themes and – for the most part – the same characters that enlivened the first film. Still, running in place never has seemed so witty, touching and visually engaging as it does in Toy Story 2.

Walt Disney Pictures’ remake of its questionable 1959 “classic” features an alarming number of serious actors trying to keep a straight face: Danny Glover, Kristin Davis, Philip Baker Hall and Robert Downey Jr., the latter of whom delightfully, repeatedly fails. And then there is star Tim Allen as a family man who turns into a

Vastly underrated by critics who took Disney’s technical mastery for granted, Dinosaur is a visually astonishing computer-animated epic that also works as a beautiful parable. After a cataclysmic asteroid shower, an iguanodon sticks up for the stragglers in his wandering herd when the leader wants to leave them behind to die. Behind the visual flash,