Now, Snow White underperforming is quite a rare phenomenon for the Disney live-action remakes. Lilo and Stitch has made a ...

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 ...

Disney's remake of the original "Pete's Dragon," a cheerily cheesy mix of live action and hand-drawn animation centering on the friendship between an orphaned boy and a cartoon dragon, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...