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You could make an argument that The Little Mermaid—the original from 1989, not the remake released this weekend—is the most significant movie made in the past 35 years. It changed the course of motion pictures by establishing a market for animated features that had never really existed before. In the decades since, what with Disney and Pixar and Dreamworks and Illumination, the animated motion picture has become the most reliable box office performer the cinema has ever seen. The Little Mermaid single-handedly revivified the Walt Disney Company, which had become inert and hidebound and had...

With three musicals in 1933 alone, Busby Berkeley made his name as a master of heady, complex, exciting routines.

This do-over is not entirely devoid of charm or amusement, including the unintentional kind.

Here it is: the 100 best movies of all time, as selected by the team at /Film.

Like many of Disney's live-action remakes of its animated classics, this splashy entertainment feels like a creative dead end.