Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Emoji Movie

There’s not a lot here either to blow heart kisses at or shoot steam out of your nostrils over.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Despicable Me 3

There’s actually a lot more here than meets the whoopee cushion.

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sports
Cars 3

Cars 3 hotfoots it back to the raceway to deliver a story similar to Lightning McQueen’s first one—this time from …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie

For a slim segment of the populace—say, grade schoolers who consider a wet palm under a flapping arm to be …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Smurfs: The Lost Village

Frankly, the Smurfs: The Lost Village’s creators do something really brave: They make a movie … just for kids.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Boss Baby

The Boss Baby’s eventual affirmation of sibling bonding and familial love makes all its toddler toilet humor a bit more …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Rock Dog

Rock Dog is a movie that is at times mildly charming (if predictable and formulaic) but more often just kind …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The LEGO Batman Movie

A tiny bit more restraint could have made this a movie we’d wholeheartedly recommend. As it is, it’s pretty good, …

Action/Adventure, Animation
The Red Turtle

The Red Turtle is a simple parable about the basic longings we all share: the desire to find companionship and …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Sing

Sing is exactly what you would expect if you’ve seen the trailer: a lighthearted and inspiring American Idol-style singing competition …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Moana

Disney sets its narrative sights on a new blend of Hawaiian myth and Pacific Ocean adventure.

Animation, Kids, Musical
Trolls

This let’s-all-get-along tale is pretty much exactly the kind of felt-and-glitter silliness you might expect from a movie about something …

Animation, Comedy, Kids
Storks

Even in films otherwise chockfull of uplifting, pro-family messages, parents have to stay vigilant to the very end.

Animation, Comedy, Kids
The Wild Life

Pixar-like moments? Sweet scenes that require wiping a tear from your grown-up eye? Nope, not a one. But then there …

Action/Adventure, Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Kubo and the Two Strings

All of Kubo’s eye-, ear- and heart-pleasing stuff masks some spiritual philosophies that parents may not be expecting.