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"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them". - Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V That single quotation, and a few of the names and plot points are all that remain of Shakespeare...

In subject matter as much as in artwork style, A Silent Voice illustrates the wide gulf that separates Japanese anime from traditional American animation. Not in a million years would Disney approach this material. Animation in the United Stat...

Let's start out by not dwelling overmuch on the existence of Mirror Mirror. The basic story outline may be the same, but the similarities end there. Everything of importance is different: tone, intent, plot specifics, and so forth. Mirror Mirror is...

Apparently, someone turned up the heat because The Snowman is a sloppy mess.One of the most shockingly awful wastes of talent imaginable, this adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s thriller is mostly incoherent and, just when it starts to make sense, it i...

Across the Spider-Verse, the middle installment of the “Spider-Verse” trilogy (following 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse and ahead of 2024’s Beyond the Spider-Verse), is just as rambunctious, psychedelic, and occasionally spastic as its precu...

If you want something shaken up, who better to turn to than (Phil) Lord & (Chris) Miller? Apparently, their brand of concussive trembling was a little too much for the Star Wars universe but not so for the “Spider-Verse,” a strange and won...

In 1987, Superman returned to the big screen after a four-year absence. The fanfare was more muted than it had been for any of the previous three entries into the franchise, including the critically lambasted and fan-unfriendly Superman III, which...

The title of this film, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, is so long that it can function as a plot synopsis in its own right. "The Englishman" in question is British cartographer Reginald Anson, played by Hugh Grant with...

Had the storyline for The Mandalorian and Grogu been used for a three-episode arc in the Disney+ TV series, I don't think anyone would have minded. The plot isn't appalling; it's the kind of thing that one wants from a TV series—an episodic ...

First thing’s first: this is not a remake of the 1987 film of the same name starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The two are connected only insofar as each claims to be an adaptation of the 1982 Stephen King novel. In the case of the first movie, simi...