I want to take this moment today to talk about one of my new favorite movies. It's very rare that I find a children's movie, or even a PG movie, that isn't pointlessly fast-paced and annoyingly ...

The first full trailer for the new family fantasy film City of Ember has launched. The trailer does a great job of explaining the story and concept and I must say this looks thoroughly entertaining.

When the city of Ember was just built and not yet inhabited, the Chief Builder and the Assistant Builder, both of them weary, sat down to speak of the future. "They must not leave the city for at ...

Though “City of Ember” is a bit hurried in execution — it would have been nice to have spent more time lingering in the daily rhythms of its thoroughly imagined world — this first live-action film by ...

To watch the talents of Saoirse Ronan, the brilliant young actress from "Atonement," being wasted in the science-fiction juvenilia of "City of Ember" is to be reminded that a powerful performance ...

Heads up, all you tweens out there in Let’s Go to the Movies-land. Today’s word is “dystopia,” as in the opposite of “utopia,” often used to describe works of science fiction that depict an Earth that ...

The Busch Family from Trabuco Canyon reviewed “City of Ember” starring Bill Murray, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway. Rated PG for mild peril and some thematic elements.

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. It’s a nice-looking film that is generally well cast. The direction is occasionally inspired, and the story is engaging. Yet, ...

A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. City of Ember belongs to one of the best and most enduring genres of children's films, in which ...

City of Ember begins with the end of the world. Knowing that an unrevealed cataclysmic event (war? disease? environmental crisis?) will soon eliminate human life, a group of scientists create an ...