Assessed for its morality, Disney’s new The Marvels is being considered a quirky, sometimes humorous but more often confusing superhero adventure, presenting a mixed bag of ingredients that will likely appeal to some viewers but not others.
As leader of the titular team of miscellaneous superheroes, Peter is naturally alarmed when a previously unknown enemy endowed with mighty fighting prowess suddenly invades the ensemble’s headquarters, Knowhere.
Elvis is a highly entertaining, turbocharged biography of a music legend. This lavish, over-the-top production has all the creative hallmarks of its flamboyant director, Baz Luhrmann.
The title may be an oxymoron, but there’s nothing paradoxical about Honest Thief (Open Road); it’s a solid, entertaining action-thriller.
Satan does seem to be having his way around the clock in the harrowingly grim, mayhem-ridden drama The Devil All the Time (Netflix). In fact, various forms of perversity are so pervasive in the film that it skirts the border of the offensive.
Of the numerous film adaptations of Charles Dickens’ autobiographical 1850 novel, The Personal History of David Copperfield (Fox Searchlight) may rank as the happiest.