Cars 3 is a decent reconstituted Rocky with a bizarre faux feminist subplot and beautiful animation.

| Nov 20, 2017

Cars 3, which picks up where the first, perfectly adequate, film left off, is by far the best instalment in the series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2017

It's a colourful, spry enough ride, but it doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 16, 2017

Nothing exceptional but I am still moved just thinking about that ending.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2017

If you can detach your noggin from the proceedings, there are definitely bright spots.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 14, 2017

A movie that aims to reach the hearts and minds of its pre-teen target demographic with a tale about the perils of retirement.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2017

Its plot ... blossoms into something more profound than the Rocky sequel-esque comeback yarn you initially expect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 13, 2017

Cars 3 could make a rental download for a rainy family holiday, but the imaginative spark has gone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2017

Cars 3 itself is a sprightly and likeable film because it shares Lightning's self-effacing qualities and his nostalgic fondness for looking at life through the rear view mirror.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 12, 2017

Corporate synergy, as they say, is a cruel mistress.

| Jul 10, 2017

Though this third installment in the Cars franchise isn't quite perfect, the gorgeous animation displayed here will leave you astonished.

| Jun 22, 2017

By driving back to the core homespun wisdom of Cars, the third film is a course correct from the second. But this is still not vintage Pixar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 19, 2017

Lightning's return to the motor speedway is worthy of appreciation, the film's eventual victory as unexpected as it is absolute.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2017

Onscreen and in the audience, youth will be served.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 16, 2017

At this point it seems like too much to hope for that any Pixar sequel, let alone a Cars sequel, should function smoothly from start to finish, but at least it ends well.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 16, 2017

It's a reasonably diverting, somewhat sluggish attempt to reinstall the "heart" of the first installment.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 16, 2017

It's all well and good for the under-12s, but this movie never packs the kind of emotional punch we know Pixar is capable of.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 16, 2017

Pixar recovers from the nearly intolerably busy Cars 2 with the gently insightful Cars 3, which tells a story about inclusion and purpose that will resonate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2017

We get a lot of repetitive racetrack scenes - only a demolition derby stands out for the inventiveness of its animation - and a familiar message about believing in yourself.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 16, 2017

"Cars 3" hums along the track, and while its heart and humor could use minor tune-ups, it does enough visually to earn a checkered flag and keep this franchise from the scrapheap - for now, at least.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 16, 2017