| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

More Belle, more Ariel, more Simba -- and less of Eisner and Co. -- would have made a more interesting movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 1, 2010

It's a not-so-great movie about some great movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 6, 2010

A few too many industry asides, but filled with behind-the-scenes moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 6, 2010

Sly retrospective exercise in corporate self-congratulation masquerading as an insider's tell-all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 26, 2010

Even in its sanitized state, this movie about the generational revolt that reinvigorated Disney's animation department in the 1980s and '90s is fascinating

| Mar 26, 2010

Waking Sleeping Beauty doesn't have as much behind-the-scenes juice as you'd hope.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2010

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2010

Waking Sleeping Beauty covers a dream era in the history of animation, but it could have delved a little deeper to keep us wide-eyed and engaged.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 25, 2010

It's got a terrific inside Hollywood sensibility plus an unblinking candor that lets the chips fall where they should. Which, given who made it, is something of a pleasant surprise.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2010

The movie turns from good to great as the layers are peeled away and director Hahn provides an insider's look at the creative epicenter of the studio.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 25, 2010

It twists, turns, and avoids unpleasant aspects of the Disney company, both immediate and historical.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Mar 25, 2010

It could have been comfortably twice as long. But what's there is an unusual peek inside the Mouse House, one delivered by a director who seems to love the studio without letting that cloud his judgement.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 25, 2010

Whatever happened, happened. The fact remains that those years were revolutionary, and if not for them, it's a good question whether Pixar, DreamWorks and the other animation production sources -- and Disney Animation itself -- would still exist.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 25, 2010

The joy of cartoons meets the agony of office politics in this fascinating, inside- Hollywood-baseball documentary about how Disney, against all odds, revived the art of feature-length drawn animation.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 24, 2010

A documentary about the lucrative rebirth of Disney's animation arm between the years 1984 and 1994, it's a warts-and-all tale of clashing egos and the eternal war between art and commerce.

| Mar 24, 2010

The film's tendency to wax sentimental occasionally undermines its authority, but you won't find better behind-the-scenes looks at the era's mouse-eared power struggles or at the making of modern Disney classics.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2010