Pete's Dragon

'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' director David Lowery puts a totally new spin on the Disney classic, inviting audiences to believe in a boy and his pet dragon.

Disney remake one of the most heartening surprises of the year.

‘Pete’s Dragon’ is surprisingly one of the year’s best movies.

There was something about "Pete's Dragon," a quality I couldn't identify at first, something that made it feel different from almost every other big summer movie, and its presen...

If your kids can get through the first five minutes of Pete’s Dragon (which rank right up there with the shooting of Bambi’s mother on the Disney trauma-o-meter), then you won’t...

Thankfully, however, “Pete’s Dragon” is much more often technically smart and emotionally intelligent, with this endearing bauble of a film containing a big beating heart inside.

Writer-director David Lowery (“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”) jumps from indie to Disney with a family winner featuring an endearingly terrific dog-like dragon.

By simply utilizing the basic set-up of a lesser original feature and giving its director the freedom to infuse his own distinct sensibilities, Pete’s Dragon sets an ideal stand...

Pete’s Dragon breathes poetic life into a forgotten Disney dud.

Pete's Dragon is as cuddly as the mountains of plush toys Disney hopes to sell from it.

In an era when most everything gets rebooted regularly, it’s almost shocking that there hasn’t been a Pete’s Dragon reimagining before now, since the 1977 original is a happy-go...

Disney goes the earnest route with spruced-up tale of a boy and his dragon, and hits paydirt.

For me, a grown-up spoiled by Pixar, Pete’s Dragon seemed sweet but slow and a little bland. My guests, entranced by the friendly dragon and the film’s 3D depictions of flight, ...

Yes, this is a children’s movie with messages about everybody being right where they belong. Yet that contentment is a hard-won knowledge, one that does not come without certain...

Mr. Lowery is very good with actors, and he lets much of his film unfold at a pace that may, in these frenzied times, seem rather leisurely. I thought the pace was fine, and adm...

Disney has a long history of terrifying children–especially when it comes to moms: Bambi’s is killed by hunters, Dumbo’s is captured and can comfort him only through the bars of...

After his parents die in a car accident, toddler Pete is raised in the woods by a big friendly dragon. Six years later, their happy existence is upended when people from the loc...

Despite the vastly improved visuals, the new film is just as soft-hearted — and, unfortunately, just as mush-headed — as the earlier one.

It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.

This sentimental, nearly genteel movie demonstrates there’s a world of difference between invoking magic and conjuring it.

Bryce Dallas Howard and Robert Redford attempt to breathe life into this sluggish reconceptualization of the 1977 Disney film.