An extravagantly visual big-screen movie inspired by the famous “Nutcracker” ballet story, this live-action Disney production may enchant young viewers but leave balletomanes wanting more than the brief dance episodes featuring Misty Copeland.
The cruel racket of gay-conversion therapy, still legal and practiced in three-quarters of America today, gets an overly polite rattling in this well-meaning but lukewarm adaptation of Garrard Conley’s memoir.
A triumph. Deftly tweaking the tropes of rock biopics, this drama of singer Freddie Mercury and British hitmakers Queen dazzlingly captures an era, a man and the universal quest for identity.
