Focus Features has re-set the release for A Monster Calls — the cinematic adaptation of Patrick Ness's coming-of-age graphic novel — for a limited run on Dec. 23. It will go wide to 1,500 ...

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.

If you aren’t crying by the third act of “A Monster Calls,” you may need to have your heart checked. Anyone who has experienced grief will be moved by author Patrick Ness’ story of a ...

A Monster Calls tells the story of a young boy struggling to cope with his mother’s terminal illness, who finds solace with the help of a terrifying monster that takes the form of a tree and ...

In ‘A Monster Calls,’ a boy learns the ropes of anguish and change Kennedy Center features the U.S. premiere of the heart-rending British stage adaptation of Patrick Ness’s novel May 30 ...

Watch a video review of A Monster Calls, which Deadline's Pete Hammond says has first-rate vidual effects but is definitely not for little children. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD.

J.A. Bayona’s wistful fantasy “A Monster Calls,” adapted by Patrick Ness from his award-winning children’s novel, centers on 12-year-old Conor O’Malley, “a boy too old to be a kid, too ...

Kenneth Turan reviews “A Monster Calls,” directed by J.A. Bayona and starring Louis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Liam Neeson, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Geraldine Chaplin.

A beloved young-adult fantasy novel about a boy facing a great loss, and a monster with Liam Neeson's voice, becomes one of the most memorable movies of the year.