Trollhunters stand together
Action/Adventure, Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans

Battles and destruction can feel very heavy for a flick aimed at an elementary school-aged audience.

A person in a dark space holds a torch aloft and looks quite concerned.
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Fear Street Part Three: 1666

The most disturbing element here is the demonic activity that seeps into nearly every minute of this unnecessarily long movie.

Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff) and her sister looking fierce after a destructive battle.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Black Widow

We expected a movie about a couple of highly trained killers would be exciting. We didn’t expect it to be …

Soldiers in the Tomorrow War
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Tomorrow War

This is a frenetic, bloody mess in some ways. But in that mess, you have moments of moral clarity about …

Wooden puppet in Pinocchio
Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Pinocchio

This version of the classic tale, Pinocchio, is much more Grimms’ Fairy Tales than it is Disney.

Picture of the main good guys from the anime movie Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train.
Action/Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train

I was surprised by the redemptive messages I found—along with a bunch of severed demon heads.

Boy and dragon in Wish Dragon
Action/Adventure, Animation, Kids, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Wish Dragon

Obviously, a bit of magic is on tap. But the real magic of this movie lies in its lessons.

Two men in interrogation in Infinite
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Infinite

Infinite feels like it’s found a fitting niche: To be seen by a few, unseen by most and quickly forgotten …

A mother and child in Awake
Drama, Mystery/Suspense, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Awake

It’s difficult to take themes of sacrifice and family seriously from a film that doesn’t seem to value life in …

Emma Stone as Cruella DeVil
Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Cruella

Being bad has rarely looked so good. Therein lies this Disney reboot’s charm … and its problems.

A concerned young man and woman walk through a forest.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Chaos Walking

This film feels more brutal, and sounds more profane, than you would expect for a movie intended, essentially, for kids.

Matthias Schweighöfer and Dave Bautista in Army of the Dead
Action/Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Army of the Dead

Is this movie terrifying? Not really. Obscenely grotesque? Oh, yeah.

An adult and child astronauts board a spacecraft.
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Voyagers

Though Voyagers is free of really explicit content, it’s still chockful of PG-13 levels of violence and suggestive scenes.

Screen shot of a family being attacked by robots while driving a car in the animated kids movie "The Mitchells vs. the Machines."
Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Mitchells vs. the Machines

The Mitchells vs. the Machines is fun, sweet and smart. It strays just a bit—but for some, that’ll be enough …

Four astronauts talk on their ship in the movie "Stowaway."
Action/Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Thriller
Stowaway

If the screenwriters had throttled back, if they’d kept what you hear as clean as what you see, this Netflix …