Movie Reviews7.5/10
Enchanted Review: Amy Adams Sells a Disney Princess in Modern Manhattan
Enchanted (2007) review: Amy Adams as a Disney princess in modern Manhattan, with Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden and Susan Sarandon. Score: 7.5/10.
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Movie Reviews4.8/10
Brother Bear Review: A Great Logline, a Mediocre Screenplay
Brother Bear (2003) review: Disney's transformation fable has a great premise, a $250M gross, and a 4.8/10 screenplay that wastes it.
Movie Reviews9.1/10
Bambi” at 84: A 70-Minute Film That Never Wastes a Minute of Its Grief”
Bambi at 70 minutes still stuns: no villain, no sidekick franchise, just a fawn, a gunshot off screen, and Disney's hardest scene.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars Saga Gets a Faithful, Unloved Adaptation
Disney's 2012 John Carter, directed by Andrew Stanton, runs on a plot it never explains. A review of the epic that never found its reason to care.
Movie Reviews5/10
Jungle Cruise Review: A $200 Million Boat Ride Going Nowhere
Disney spent 17 years turning a boat ride into a $200M movie. Jungle Cruise grossed $221M and felt like a checklist, not a story.
Movie Reviews3.4/10
Alice Through the Looking Glass Review: A $300 Million Fetch Quest Through Other People’s Childhoods
Alice Through the Looking Glass review: Disney's 2016 sequel spends 113 minutes explaining a hat, wastes Sacha Baron Cohen's Time and loses $70 million.
Movie Reviews4/10
The Declaration of Independence Heist That Launched a Franchise Still Works
A review of National Treasure (2004), the Nicolas Cage heist film that turns the Declaration of Independence into a prop and never lives up to its own premise.
Movie Reviews8/10
Disney’s Tarzan Has Aged Less Gracefully Than Its Soundtrack
Tarzan review: Disney's 1999 animated adventure swings into theaters with an 88-minute story of adoption, identity, and a compressed third act.
Movie Reviews6/10
Tomorrowland Review: Brad Bird’s Ambitious Vision Falls Short
Tomorrowland review: Brad Bird's ambitious sci-fi with George Clooney and Britt Robertson dazzles early but loses its grip, losing Disney $120–150 million.
Movie Reviews4.9/10
Tron: Legacy Review: A Beautiful Grid with a Stalled Story
Tron: Legacy review: Disney's 2010 sequel looks stunning and sounds better, but its story stalls. Daft Punk shines while Sam Flynn's search falls flat.
Movie Reviews7.8/10
A Bug’s Life: Pixar’s Confident Second Feature, Reviewed
A Bug's Life, Pixar's follow-up to Toy Story, opened November 25, 1998. A review of Flik, Hopper, the circus bugs, and a studio finding its footing.
Movie Reviews7.5/10
Disney’s Encanto Became a Hit After Theaters, Not In Them
Encanto's box office was soft, but Disney+ made it a phenomenon. A deep look at Mirabel, Bruno, Lin-Manuel Miranda's songs and the family that cracked.