Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star in “The House With a Clock in Its Walls.”

Witches are so 2017. Make way for warlocks, aka “boy witches,” as defined by the intrepid young Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), the boy hero of “The House with a...

“The House with a Clock…

Eli Roth breaks type to direct this magical family adventure...

Jack Black and Cate Blanchett are a good pair but the kiddie horror-comedy sputters out

Eli Roth tries on Amblin family-fantasy with Jack Black and Cate Blanchett. Read the Empire review.

The film opens in theaters on Sep. 21.

An engaging new direction for Eli Roth, who offsets the odd tonal hiccup with plenty of ghoulish delights.

Jack Black and Cate Blanchett star in Eli Roth’s ‘The House With a Clock in Its Walls,' based on the book by John Bellairs.

We can only be so mad at a kids movie in which Cate Blanchett head-butts a demonic pumpkin to save the world from Kyle MacLachlan’s corpse.

If you can’t wait to get your kids started on horror, then The House with a Clock in Its Walls is the movie for, well, I guess the whole family.

This week in plot-point coincidences, there are two new pictures — “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” and “Life Itself” — in which a child is ...

Eli Roth’s latest offering is a Harry Potter-fied version of a 1950s haunted house horror.

The exquisite atmosphere and sense of foreboding that made John Bellairs' 1973 book a children's classic gets discarded in favor of a relentless riot of jump...

The director Eli Roth, previously known for gory exploitation throwbacks, now makes a nostalgic fun house movie geared toward a younger crowd.

The awkwardly-titled TheHouse with a Clock in Its Walls is a classic example of a film that worksbetter for children than adults. Seemingly made with the und...

Black, more than anyone else, should have been the one to wind up The House with a Clock in Its Walls. Too bad he doesn't give as much as he takes.

Some myths die harder than others. But the self-sustaining hype of horror mogul Eli Roth was never much more than smoke and torture porn mirrors. Removed fr...

'The House With a Clock in Its Walls' is a fine adaptation of a YA horror classic — but come for Jack Black, says Peter Travers. Our review.

Believe it or not, the ‘Hostel’ filmmaker made a horror movie for kids, swapping his gross-out shocks for a PG haunted house movie.

Jack Black and Cate Blanchett head up Eli Roth's adaptation of the fantasy novel

The plot and themes don't really measure up but it is fun.

Eli Roth’s latest film is a dandy ode to weirdos

Despite the best efforts of Jack Black and Cate Blanchett, Roth's wonky "The House With A Clock In Its Walls" doesn't have the needed spellbinding charm.

★★☆☆☆This Fifties-set adaptation of the children’s fantasy novel by John Bellairs has a few small flaws: the ersatz Edgar Allan Poe tone, the kno...

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Cate Blanchett and Jack Black are clearly having a blast as a friendly witch and warlock, and their joy is infectious

Horror director Eli Roth ('Hostel') tones down the intensity of his scares in service of an Amblin-backed, PG-rated haunted-house mystery.

Eli Roth’s witchy kid adventure prioritizes the machinations of the adult characters, and throws in some left-field darkness.