The Breadwinner
This Oscar-nominated film tells of a young Afgan girl who disguises herself as a boy to support her family, after her father is arrested by the Taliban, in an eye-opening story that sees oppression fought with courage and love. |
Early Man
Early Man is fun, but leaves a lot of potential untapped. Aardman is still top of their game technically, but hopefully the issues here are an anomaly and we’ll see more evolved storytelling in their next generation of films. |
The Star
The Star isn’t stellar, but if you go in with the right spirit, and not expecting any miracles, you might find it to be an unexpected gift. |
Coco
Coco is a beautiful film in a lot of ways — artistically, musically, and culturally. But narratively it’s just a ghost of the type of stories we’re used to from Pixar. |
Justice League Action – Superpowers Unite: Season One, Part One
The World’s Greatest Superheroes battle the forces of evil in colorful bite-sized stories that are perfect for younger kids and their parents. |
My Little Pony: The Movie
The surprisingly action-packed My Little Pony: The Movie should delight fans of the series, while newcomers can appreciate the splashy animation and great songs. |
Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Three
The crew of the Ghost face off against Grand Admiral Thrawn as the penultimate season of Rebels sees the Alliance fully formed and the story inches towards A New Hope. |
The Lego Ninjago Movie
The Lego Ninjago Movie is enjoyable but not at all awesome. While there is some fun to be had, it’s hard to spin it as anything else but a letdown. |
The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn
The Powerpuff Girls come dangerously close to not saving the day in this disappointingly underwhelming collection of episodes. |
Rick And Morty: Rickmancing The Stone
Adult Swim’s brilliant series is back for its third season, possibly more hilarious and twisted than ever. If you’re not already watching it, now’s the time to start. |
The Emoji Movie
The Emoji Movie is a stupid idea for an animated movie which is also probably better than it deserves to be. |
Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
Continuing its creative storytelling and ambitious world-building, this show doesn’t lose any of its spark, also experimenting with its first miniseries: Marceline-centric Stakes. |
Despicable Me 3
Though it’s elevated by plenty of laughs and a fun new bad guy, Despicable Me 3 would’ve benefited from a little more focus…and, dare we say it, more Minions. |
Cars 3
Cars 3 is a little too similar to the original model. But with fun characters, nice writing, and top of the line animation, the film easily leaves the previous entry of the franchise in the dust. |
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
With fun animation, hit-or-miss jokes, and a meandering plot, Captain Underpants is a mixed bag, somewhere between “not bad” and “not great”, and more tepid than epic. |
Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is a pretty good superhero movie and the best DCEU film to date, boosted by Gal Gadot’s performance and director Patty Jenkins’ storytelling. |
The Red Turtle
The award-winning Studio Ghibli film, that actually is a European production, has characters that never speak, but the film has plenty to say. |
Tangled: Before Ever After
The Tangled television series kicks off with this debut movie, whose job is simply to restore Rapunzel’s golden locks for the ongoing show in an entertaining enough fashion. |
The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
As opulent as the film and current stage smash it documents and celebrates, Michael Lassell’s book is a wish come true for fans. |
The Boss Baby
While there is some fun for kids in The Boss Baby, adults sitting with them will be wishing they were at the grown-ups table instead. |
Sing
Fun and funny, with a killer, wide-ranging soundtrack that overcomes its cartoon karaoke concept, and some great character animation, Sing turns out to be the best singing contest on screens right now. |
Beauty and the Beast
While it manages to be good, the live-action adaption of Disney’s animated classic suffers from glaring flaws that make the film a disappointment given the hype and ambitions. |
Miss Hokusai
This tale of famous Japanese artists – a man and his daughter – is told using Buddhist ideas of life’s simple pleasures, rather than trying to fit a Western-style genre. Its rewards are subtle and may be unexpected. |
Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
Disney’s second animated smash of 2016 is this brilliant action adventure musical from masters of the craft John Musker and Ron Clements, and this disc presentation is as solid as they come! |
Mickey And The Roadster Racers
This Mickey Mouse Clubhouse spin-off offers plenty of slapstick-heavy action for kids, even as some adults wonder how much mileage Disney can get out of it. |
Legend Quest
Endure the rough start and one will find Legend Quest to be an exciting, dramatic adventure filled with scary creatures and fascinating mythologies to explore. |
The Powerpuff Girls: Tiara Trouble
Though it may not capture the absurd magic of the original series, the new Powerpuff Girls still provides plenty of laughs for both kids and adults. |
Trolls: Party Edition
The delightful DreamWorks musical hit looks great on disc, even if the number of extras included isn’t exactly hair-raising. |
The Lego Batman Movie
Despite a thin story The Lego Batman Movie is an extremely fun ride with great animation, music, and acting. Though maybe next time leave the more dreary plotlines to that other Dark Knight. |