Experiencing “Pete’s Dragon” is like seeing something thought to be extinct, a creation every bit as magical and mythical as the flying, fire-breathing beast it’s named after. That would ...

Melding the two makes “Pete’s Dragon,” a cinematic enchantment, a low-key 1970s-style kids’ movie brimming with sincerity and heart. It’s one of the best films of the year.

Pete's Dragon is a remake in all the right ways, taking cues from the original but reimagining the story for a very different audience living in a very different era. A film for children that isn ...

Pete’s Dragon’’ is a warm cup of cocoa and a hug from Robert Redford at the end of the summer. It plays like a lost movie from Carroll Ballard (“The Black Stallion,” “Duma”) that ...

Combined with the data on previous Disney live-action remakes/reboots, these points suggest Pete's Dragon can provide Disney with another checkmark in the "win" column. It's a summer family ...

In making a new version of “Pete’s Dragon,” Dallas director David Lowery didn’t keep much from Disney’s original — and still very weird — 1977 film. He kept the title, he kept a kid ...

"Pete's Dragon" is a warm cup of cocoa and a hug from Robert Redford at the end of the summer. It plays like a lost movie from Carroll Ballard ("The Black Stallion," "Duma") that Hollywood ...

Anyone who treasures the creative enterprise should be repulsed by the endless recycling – and, in principle, I am – but then something like Pete’s Dragon always seems to come ambling out of ...

Watch a film clip from "Pete's Dragon," starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley. Photo: Walt Disney Pictures The clearest difference between Disney’s remake of “Pete’s ...

And, really, no movies have as many shots of an elaborately coutured Cate Blanchett lounging ominously in doorways as Cinderella, so it’s unfair to single Pete’s Dragon out. Hollywood needs to ...

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