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 was an exercise in patience.

In designing the tree creature, Bayona believed simpler was better. “The more sophisticated the Monster was, the less space it leaves the audience for imagination,” says the filmmaker, whose ...

Rooms come alive. 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 ...

The British drama "A Monster Calls" has all the ingredients to produce yet another sob-fest, ... He starts getting nightly visits from a yew tree that’s visible from his bedroom window.

A Monster Calls dials up a nostalgic and superb coming-of-age journey that'll have audiences grabbing all the hankies. An embattled sort, young Conor (MacDougall) can't catch a break in any part ...

“A Monster Calls,” which considers children’s feelings ... Liam Neeson provides the voice and a motion-capture performance to animate the computer-generated monster, an ancient yew tree come ...

A Monster Calls incorporates highly original stagecraft. The set (by Michael Vale ) is dominated by thick ropes suspended from the ceiling that twist and weave to create the giant yew tree.

Film Review: ‘A Monster Calls’ Though visually stunning, J.A. Bayona's gothic fable about an angry boy and the massive tree monster who comes to his rescue is all bark and no bite.

Instead, he takes refuge in drawing, and in the monster — a creature who bursts from the ancient yew tree outside his window, voiced by Liam Neeson — who visits him late at night, offering ...

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 was an exercise in patience ...

The British drama “A Monster Calls” has all the ingredients to produce yet another sob-fest, revolving as it does around a sensitive, bullied boy who must come to terms with his mother&… ...