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Disney Plus Dec. 24. OK, it’s no “Frozen” — a “Let It Go” only comes around once every couple of ice ages — but it’s nonetheless a heartfelt and joyful take on a good old dysfunctional family. This clan, the Madrigals, happens to be magical.

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‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’ review: A powerful Broadway tearjerker

who died of an aortic aneurysm in the early morning on the day his iconic musical premiered at the East Village’s New York Theatre Workshop in 1996. He was just 35, and never lived to see “Rent” move to Broadway and become a worldwide phenomenon.“Tick, Tick,” which Larson wrote as a one-man show for himself in 1990, takes place well before that sad day, but his death movingly hovers over every scene. Running time: 115 minutes.

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‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ is the worst hero film series ever

“Venom” is, by far, the worst comic book movie franchise out there — the black sheep, er blob, of Marvel and not even a part of the popular Marvel Cinematic Universe. Watching it, unless you’re already a demented diehard fan, is utter agony.Venom, for the blissfully uninitiated, is a symbiotic alien who’s latched onto the body of San Francisco newspaper columnist/schlub Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy), and eats human brains to stay alive.

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‘Stillwater’ review: Matt Damon film is a gripping riff on Amanda Knox

engrossing drama “Stillwater.” Bill’s life, however, is hardly ho-hum. An Oklahoma oil rig worker, he isn’t traveling in the seaside city to take in the sights and nosh on foie gras terrine; his college-aged daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), has been imprisoned for a year in Marseille for the murder of her roommate she claims she didn’t commit.

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‘The Green Knight’ review: Dev Patel wows in a gorgeous fantasy

Dev Patel), one of the Knights of the Round Table, is a quest in the most pastoral sense. And damn is director David Lowery’s forrest-filled movie beautiful to look at.This telling of the tale sees the young Gawain desperate to become one of King Arthur’s brave soldiers. In a bold move, although we meet Arthur, Queen Guinevere and Morgan le Fay, their names are never uttered.

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‘The Forever Purge’ review: Our long, fake national nightmare is over

We did it. We have survived the Purge!The horror-movie series about a dystopian America in which it’s legal to kill anybody you want for one night a year supposedly comes to an end with the fifth entry, “The Forever Purge.” I hope that’s true, but don’t be shocked if we get “The Purge VI: The Purge Awakens” in a couple of years.Running time: 103 minutes.

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‘F9’ review: This stupid movie series should drive off a cliff

Running time: 145 minutes. Rated PG-13 (sequences of violence and action, and language.) In theaters.“We’re all stuck driving in the same s–tty circle,” says Michelle Rodriguez’s character Letty in “F9: The Fast Saga.” “And we’re never getting out.”Besides expressing Letty’s vague existential crisis, Rodriguez is also speaking for us cranky critics who wonder just how many more atrocious “Fast & Furious” movies we will be forced to endure.

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‘Luca’ review: Pixar makes a movie for kids instead of sad-sack adults

meant for little ones, but the films so often turn out more like Psychology 101 class, delving into an adult’s hunt for purpose (“Soul”) or the functions of the human brain (“Inside Out”) with the goal of making nostalgic millennials cry. In a welcome change of pace, its latest enjoyable flick, “Luca,” is seeking the approval of tykes — not Carl Jung.The film, premiering Friday on Disney+, is not as action-packed, epic or thinky as many recent Pixar offerings, but it’s admirably simple and has a lot of heart.The title character (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) is a sweet, green sea monster, who lives near the coast of Italy with his mom (Maya Rudolph) and dad (Jim Gaffigan), and is bored of life as an underwater fish herder.

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‘Spirit Untamed’ review: Should you see it? Neigh!

“Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron” horse franchise — which has mindbogglingly been in existence for 19 years — is “Spirit Untamed.” It’s closer to a state fair pony ride than a rousing Western adventure. A general criterion for a kids movie is that you should be able to remember the villain — their voice, look, catchphrase. Well, right now I can more easily picture the cashier at Trader Joe’s than the baddie of “Spirit Untamed.”The entire plot is just as bland.

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‘Woman in the Window’ review: Amazing house stars in lousy movie

A.J. Finn’s novel, is here, and it sure is dusty.Said glass pane belongs to the cavernous New York home of Anna (Amy Adams), an agoraphobic child psychologist who’s currently separated from her husband.

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‘Water Man’ review: Family drama is mythical, but not memorable

David Oyelowo’s debut as a director, “The Water Man,” is a very nice movie that’s a lot like a bunch of other very nice movies. Gunner’s mom (Rosario Dawson) is dying of cancer, and the awkward young bookworm is determined to save her. So he borrows everything written on leukemia from the library and asks her doctor to prescribe different meds. Nothing works, but then Gunner (Lonnie Chavis) hears the legend of the Water Man, a local myth about a guy who miraculously woke up after drowning only to become immortal.

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‘Here Today’ review: Nobody asked for a Billy Crystal dementia comedy

Billy Crystal plays Charlie Berns, a renowned writer of TV, films and Broadway plays whose heyday was in the 1970s and ’80s. Now, he’s a respected old fogey with a gig writing for a cable sketch show called “This Just In.” It airs on the “Funny Channel” — a misnomer if there ever was one.No wonder the overlong movie directed by Crystal doesn’t get laughs, because “Here Today” is also a dementia drama.

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‘Concrete Cowboy’ review: You can’t beat Idris Elba on a horse

is a real, century-old institution in Philly’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood. The majority of its riders are black, and many of them act in the film alongside Idris Elba.Elba plays Harp, a local cowboy whose life is dedicated to these majestic animals.

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‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ review: An action-packed princess quest

Disney’s “Raya and the Last Dragon.”Hollywood loves a scaly scamp. There’s “Game of Thrones,” “Dragonheart,” “Pete’s Dragon,” the much better 2016 remake of “Pete’s Dragon” and the gold standard of fire-breathers, “How To Train Your Dragon,” one of the best CGI family films ever made.There’s something so whimsical about a pet that can destroy all your enemies without lifting a claw.“Raya,” which has a lot going for it, is not as emotionally involving as any of those other films or TV shows.

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‘United States vs. Billie Holiday’ review: Andra Day shines in OK film

The Iron Lady” or “Judy” is “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” director Lee Daniels’ movie about the celebrated singer of “Strange Fruit.” The stunner is Andra Day, a musician who is almost totally new to acting.

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‘Land’ review: A soulful, but simple, take on nature and trauma

her directing debut, however, is its soulfulness. Her character, Edee, isn’t some spoiled brat stranded in the woods like Tea Leoni in “Six Days Seven Nights”; she is a traumatized woman trying to rebuild her life from the ground up.Edee’s reality has been shattered by a family tragedy, so she packs up the car and leaves the city behind for a cabin deep in the Wyoming wilderness far removed from civilization.

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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ review: Galvanizing, shocking and true

Get Out” in 2017, and he hasn’t let up since. His performances in “Black Panther” and “Queen & Slim” were every bit as forceful as his horror hit, but he’s topped them all with this one.

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How to watch Sundance Film Festival 2021 movies at home

just taken. No more elite crowds wearing scarves that cost as much as a used Toyota Corolla.But even if we can’t drink craft beers with Richard Linklater in a remodeled shoe store, at least we still have the movies.

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‘Buddy Games’ review: Only complete idiots will like this ‘comedy’

Picking the worst part of “Buddy Games” is like choosing meat at a Brazilian steakhouse.

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‘Hillbilly Elegy’ review: Hollywood bungles an important American story

JD Vance’s 2016 memoir is an enlightening work that led to a cottage industry of books seeking to explain the thinking of working-class whites in the wake of the 2016 election. Vance’s memoir, which is still worth a read, was the best and most personal of them all.Bouncing back and forth through time, Howard’s story takes us through how young JD (Owen Asztalos) was born in Kentucky, raised in Middletown, Ohio, and rose above a turbulent family life, in which dinner wasn’t always guaranteed, to study law at Yale.

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‘The Dark and the Wicked’ review: So many scares that nothing is scary

“The Dark and the Wicked” would benefit from some light and some normal.The sleepy horror movie is an onslaught of spooky images that, while well-done, are watered down by sheer abundance. We stop being scared after the first 15 minutes because there is nothing new to see.Writer-director Bryan Bertino’s film is more about mood than story, with a thin plot in which two adult siblings (Marin Ireland and Michael Abbott Jr.) come home to see their dying father, whom their mom believes is being hounded by the devil.

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