This "Annie" has been scrubbed cleaner than one imagines the titular little orphan ever could be. Fans of previous incarnations are advised to check their nostalgia at the door, while the ...

There’s a clever idea here — the Annie we knew, the one from 1932, doesn’t have to be all that different from one from 2014 — but it gets lost in Gluck’s tendency to overemphasize points ...

Those interested in the health and well-being of the screen musical are advised to wait a week for “Into the Woods” rather than take a flier on the wobbly, unsatisfying new update of “Annie ...

Daddy Warbucks has become Will Stacks, a germaphobic, socially isolated communications magnate portrayed by Jamie Foxx. Running for mayor, Stacks rescues Annie in traffic one day and suddenly his ...

Those interested in the health and well-being of the screen musical are advised to wait a week for “Into the Woods” rather than take a flier on the wobbly, unsatisfying new update of “Annie.” ...

(With apologies to the Passover song “Dayenu.”)Had Jay-Z, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith — the producers of the new “Annie” — simply replaced the iconic red-h… ...

Those interested in the health and well-being of the screen musical are advised to wait a week for “Into the Woods” rather than take a flier on the wobbly, unsatisfying new update of “Annie ...

Those interested in the health and well-being of the screen musical are advised to wait a week for “Into the Woods” rather than take a flier on the wobbly, unsatisfying new update of “Annie ...

Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) is a little girl with such a big personality that even New York can hardly contain her. Nothing gets her down, including the mean-spirited rants of her foster mom, Miss ...

Annie hits a few sour notes along its path, often making just getting through the movie feel like a "hard knock" chore in its own right, But Wallis, Foxx, and Byrne work hard to elevate the ...

Come back, John Huston, all is forgiven.When the grizzled Hollywood veteran was attached to direct the 1982 film version of Broadway’s mammoth hit Annie, which had fetched a record sum for ...

Annie (Quvenzhane Wallis) and Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) take Sandy (rescue dog Marti) for a walk. Barry Wetcher/Sony pictures. Annie is delighted when Will invites her to come share his luxe ...