Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

Octavia Spencer as Roberta and Chris Evans as Frank in the film Gifted. Wilson Webb/Twentieth Century Fo TNS Gifted introduces you to the best kid actress I’ve seen since Dakota Fanning. She’s Mckenna ...

Films that deal with children who are wise beyond their years depend almost entirely on the casting of the young protagonist. Make them act too mature and the result is a character too brash to like.

A one-eyed cat and a totally charming kid make “Gifted” far more special than it deserves to be. Following the template for dozens of films (two sides battle for the control of a child’s future), the ...

Everyone involved with “Gifted” no doubt intended a sweet, affecting, sincere and, as manipulative heartwarmers go, relatively low-key affair. But virtually no one involved appears to have remembered ...

Frank Adler (Chris Evans) is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary (Mckenna Grace) - in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are ...