151; -- Starring Lewis MacDougal, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, and Liam Neeson Rated PG-13 Four out of five stars “A Monster Calls ... an enormous yew tree that sits in the middle ...

A Monster Calls dials up a nostalgic and superb ... Conor is summoned outside his flat by the giant yew tree in the nearby cemetery that's inexplicably come alive. (Think Groot from Guardians ...

“A Monster Calls,” which considers children’s feelings ... to animate the computer-generated monster, an ancient yew tree come to life. Felicity Jones and Sigourney Weaver give heartfelt ...

The British drama “A Monster Calls” has all the ingredients ... He starts getting nightly visits from a yew tree that’s visible from his bedroom window. At exactly 12:07 a.m., the squat ...

Constructing the ominous tree creature that helps 12-year-old Conor (Lewis MacDougall) cope while his mother (Felicity Jones) battles an illness in A Monster Calls ... a looming yew tree that ...

Liam Neeson lends his voice to the titular monster -- an ancient yew tree (make of the homophone ... (who also wrote the screenplay), A Monster Calls is an odd movie but not a dull one, and ...

A towering yew tree walks and talks. A nightmare manifests as a menacing, muttering crowd. A powerhouse ensemble conjures these eerie moments in “A Monster Calls,” the British stage adaptation ...

Yet it is no dream when at 12:07 he is visited by a monster - the ancient yew tree Conor and his mum often ... underscore the work. A Monster Calls is theater at its best: a powerful story ...

His torment awakens the ancient yew tree (magnificently voiced by Liam ... More likely, “A Monster Calls” will join a long list of tragic box-office disappointments (of which “The Iron ...

Turns out illustrator Jim Kay’s monster designs in the book provided all the inspiration the filmmakers were looking for: a looming yew ... the tree had,” says Bayona. A Monster Calls opens ...