Alex reckons The Witches is enormously fun, Words on Bathroom Walls moving, and Sweet River a thrilling way to spend an hour and a half!

No matter how you cut it, “ The Witches ” is a really disturbing tale. Not that one should expect anything else from Roald Dahl, but for some reason this...

A new adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic about a boy (Jahzir Bruno) and his grandmother (Octavia Spencer) doing battle against an army of witches led by an...

“The Witches” serves up a strange brew that doesn’t work, but it’s mildly fascinating for the reasons why, from the people responsible for making it ...

Robert Zemeckis offers a curiously timely twist on the Roald Dahl classic.

Robert Zemeckis’s new take on Roald Dahl’s children’s novel offers up a wild Anne Hathaway performance… and little else of note.

The Oscar-winner works her magic in HBO Max adaptation of Roald Dahl tale

Robert Zemeckis presents a new take on Roald Dahl's kids horror classic, with Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch. Read the Empire review.

Roald Dahl’s timeless children’s story is reimagined as a saccharine caper – but at least the cast are having fun.

Meh.

She's channeling big Miranda Priestly energy in The Witches.

As great as it can be, The Witches lacks the best world-building and depth of some other Dahl material, and Zemeckis can’t quite figure out how to make thi...

The new adaptation largely feels safer than its 1990 counterpart, but the ending prompts questions about mortality

This is a sleeker-looking vehicle that’s eager to be scary but not comfortable being ugly.

How could this new adaptation of the classic children's fantasy hope to improve on its predecessor?

Hollywood has few directors who exude the pure, giddy joy one can find in every beat of a Robert Zemeckis film. From the Beatles-infused start of his career ...

This is no Tim-Burton-does-Willy-Wonka debacle, but neither does it improve on the 1990 version

Transplanting the story to the American South, Robert Zemeckis' version of the Roald Dahl witch tale stays on the surface in a buzzy way.

I wouldn’t say it’s good, but it’s definitely big.