Review of Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020) by Justin Chang for Los Angeles Times — 21 Oct 2020
For much of this movie you may find yourself hoping that Zemeckis might somehow recapture the entrancingly macabre spirit of “Death Becomes Her,” still one of his greatest pictures and one of the few in which his flair for ever more outlandish visual effects feels perfectly in sync with the story he’s telling.
But despite a few flashes of novelty . . . The Witches is pretty thin brew by comparison, concocted from mostly secondhand ingredients.
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This review of Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020) was written by Justin Chang and published by Los Angeles Times on 21 Oct 2020.
Roald Dahl's The Witches has generally received mixed reviews.
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