Dwayne Johnson

In its modern way, Snitch is almost Dickensian in its intent, missing no opportunity for melodramatic confrontation as it puts a (baby) face on a social ill.

Succeeds at exploiting a proven disaster-movie formula without troubling itself much with little things like plot, character, and dialogue.

Even if the material's not always up to the title's ironic reference to wit, the cast and their director carry the day with a good stock of laughs.

When it’s cooking, Moana prepares tender, slip-off-the-bone meat on the tried-and-true bones of the Disney formula.

If The Next Level plays fast and loose, it also makes an effort to prompt viewers to reflect not only on the freedom of fantasy, but on the fraught but essential relationship of mind and body.