Most live-action Disney remakes feel like perfunctory re-treads. The exceptions, which are few and far between, include Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella, whose emphasis on kindness through adversity makes ...

The live-action film, “Peter Pan & Wendy,” debuts today, Friday, April 28, 2023, on Disney+ streaming service. The Disney+ original “is a live-action reimagining of the J.M. Barrie novel and the 1953 ...

A thin but lovely film about embracing change, Lowery's latest is a high-flying rebuttal to the soullessness of Disney's other recent live-action remakes. For one thing, Lowery’s update doesn’t look ...

As much as anything, it was Tim Burton’s 2010 live-action adaptation of Walt Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland,” which rocketed to more than $1 billion in ticket sales, that convinced Disney brass that ...

A couple years ago, I mused whether David Lowery’s Peter Pan and Wendy (now on Disney+) or Benh Zeitlin’s 2020 film Wendy would better execute the following premise: What if Terrence Malick directed a ...

Even if he could grow up, J.M. Barrie's age-defying scamp must feel like he's trapped in a time loop, so often has he been revived. This straight-to-streaming take ranks among the least imaginative.

If you’re familiar with Disney’s animated Peter Pan or really any version of the story from author J.M. Barrie, then you’re going to be pretty up to speed with the plot of Peter Pan & Wendy. Wendy ...

We’ve seen so many Peter Pan movies that we’ve lost count of them and their Peters, Wendys, Tinker Bells and Captain Hooks. Some of us are still recovering from Joe Wright’s career-crashing 2015 flop ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Director David Lowery's movie has splendid visuals but lacks charm The crux of the problem is Peter himself. Instead of a winsome trickster, he's a bore taxed with a soggy backstory. Pan also ventured ...