Baby’s Day Out (1994) Review
Baby's Day Out is one of the more interesting commercial failures in 1990s American family cinema. Patrick Read Johnson directed.
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AnimalThe Aristocats (1970) Review
The Aristocats is one of the substantial Disney animated productions of the post-Walt era and the studio's most successful cat-focused feature. The Aristocats was the first Disney animated feature originated and produced entirely after his death.
AdventureAntz (1998) Review
DreamWorks Animation had been established in 1994 by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg, and David Geffen as substantial competitor to the Walt Disney Company and to Pixar. Both productions handled comparable insect colony source material.
Adventure101 Dalmatians (1961) Review
One Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the great Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful early 1960s feature. Sleeping Beauty had been the most expensive animated production Disney had attempted and had generated substantially disappointing initial commercial…
AdventureA Bug’s Life (1998) Review
The 1998 production represented his second feature directorial work and the broader Pixar studio's continued development as substantial animated production company. Flik is an ant inventor whose inventions consistently fail and damage the broader colony operations.
AnimatedAlice in Wonderland (1951) Review
Alice in Wonderland is one of the substantial mid-century Disney animated productions and the studio's most successful engagement with Lewis Carroll sourc. Various preproduction attempts had failed across multiple decades partly because of the substantial creative challenges that the Carroll…
AdventureHoney, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) Review
Rick Moranis at his peak, practical effects that put CGI to shame, and Disney back when it made original family adventures. The Blu-ray release is out of print and trades at collector prices.
ChristmasHome Alone 2 (1992) Review
Tim Curry at the Plaza, the Pigeon Lady, and the rare sequel that surpasses a very good original. It is the rare sequel that is better than a very good original.
ChristmasHome Alone (1990) Review
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci fresh off Goodfellas, and Three Stooges traps wrapped around a John Hughes Christmas movie about loneliness. The film holds up better than it has any right to, given that it is essentially Three Stooges slapstick crossed…
AnimatedThe Greatest Animated Films
Twenty animated films spanning eight decades and five countries — from Snow White's invention of the form to Spider-Verse's reinvention of it. Animation is not a genre. It's a medium. The best films in it aren't children's films that adults…