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!

Anne Hathaway has a grand time in 'The Witches' HBO Max remake. But Robert Zemeckis' movie doesn't trust its audience to be as scary as it should be.

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...

Despite a superstar creative team and a cast led by Oscar winners, the HBO Max fantasy offers minimal magic.

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 s...

“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.

Robert Zemeckis' new version of Roald Dahl's 'The Witches' is ugly and dull.

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.

Robert Zemeckis' adaptation of 'The Witches' has a deliriously loony performance by Anne Hathaway but only a fraction of Roald Dahl's magic.

Anne Hathaway as the grand high witch is the centrepiece of Robert Zemeckis’s film

The Witches: It’s ‘Hello Dahl-y’, as Anne Hathaway’s Grand High Witch brings camp not creepiness to Zemeckis’ entertaining fairytale.

Just in time for Halloween comes "Roald Dahl's The Witches," in which witches are everywhere and their goal is to turn children into mice so they can be exte...

Anne Hathaway rules the coven and Octavia Spencer plays the doting Southerner defending her orphaned grandson in Robert Zemeckis' update of the classic Roald...

If only "The Witches" were directed by the Robert Zemeckis who made "Roger Rabbit," not the Robert Zemeckis who made "The Polar Express."

Robert Zemeckis' new film of the Roald Dahl classic is no match for Nicolas Roeg's marvelous 1990 adaptation.

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

Meh.

Is Roald Dahl fit for the Age of Snowflakes?

In this new take on the Roald Dahl book, Robert Zemeckis sets loose his cameras, and Octavia Spencer side-eyes Anne Hathaway.

Anne Hathaway’s campy performance can’t save this remake

Once upon a time, Robert Zemeckis was a visionary filmmaker.His early resume reads like a list of well-remembered classics: Back to the Future, Who Framed Ro...

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...

Robert Zemeckis and Anne Hathaway unite to take on the children of the world this Hallowe'en

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

Robert Zemeckis’s adaptation of the children’s classic has enough edge to distinguish itself.

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.