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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them review: A flawed but fun start to a new franchise

'Harry Potter' offshoot packs a lot in, offers room to improve

It only takes one word to scare a fantasy film fan: “prequel”. Years of bitter experience has shown that, more often than not, prequels mean lazy storytelling, bloated run times, and the unmistakable feeling that making a buck was the first thing...

Doctor Strange review: New Marvel origin story relies on sleight of hand

Dressing up familiar formula is a matter of smoke and mirrors.

Doctor Strange is the first Marvel movie named after the lead character’s real name. That is, in this film Benedict Cumberbatch starts out playing a regular, if very skilled, neurosurgeon named Stephen Strange; if it was named after his superhero...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children review: Tim Burton successfully puts his stamp on the teen fantasy genre

Tim Burton's take on the magical teen genre finds him doing some of his best work in recent years.

It’s a little surprising that it’s taken Tim Burton this long to make a film like Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. For close to three decades now he’s been Hollywood’s go-to guy for a particular brand of flamboyant whimsy built around...

'Warcraft: The Beginning' review: It's game over for wannabe action franchise

Game adaptation fails to spark on screen

A whole lot of things have to go seriously wrong for US$150 million to turn into a movie like Warcraft: The Beginning. To be fair to director Duncan Jones, who’s once-promising career (Moon, Source Code) has to have been seriously derailed by...

Alice Through the Looking Glass review

James Bobin's 'Alice' sequel is a lacklustre rendition of the beloved classic

"The 'why?' cannot, and need not, be put into words." So wrote Lewis Carroll in the introduction to "Alice's Adventures Under Ground," and his advice goes sadly unheeded in Alice Through the Looking Glass, James Bobin's sequel to Tim Burton's...