It is an experience that can best be described as sitting next to a drunk friend who rambles on and on with a story that they believe to be hilarious when it is actually anything but.

Just because you can make a short into a feature length film, doesn’t mean you should.

At long last, Pixar returns to theaters with “the origin story of the human Buzz Lightyear that the toy is based on”. It’s less complicated that it seems, but nevertheless a blockbuster that’s fun for the whole family.

Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack shine in a character study about sex that, while largely confined to a single room, is vast in its emotional depth.

Somewhere around the sagging midpoint of the latest installation the Jurassic franchise, Laura Dern’s “iconic paleobotanist” Ellie Sattler pauses to cuddle a baby triceratops nasutoceratops bound for a life in captivity in yet another dinosaur refuge. Delighting in the infant creature’s wide eyed attention, she muses “It never gets old, does it?” If only the filmmakers shared that reverence or even a fraction of Dern’s rare longstanding capacity to really see the dinosaurs and convey a true sense of wonder, this closing chapter might have been anything other than a long perfunctory drag.

In what’s becoming an ongoing series of autobiographically-influenced autobiographies of influential poets, British director Terence Davies follows up his stirring 2016 portrait of Emily Dickinson (A Quiet Passion) with the story of decorated turn-of-the-century war poet Siegfried Sassoon.