Don't Let's Go to the DogsTonight... another Smurfs feature exists that I'm second-guessing whether my frustration with its manic "try everything" energy is a matter of going in with a pre-made-up mind.
Writer-director Embeth Davidtz offers a beguiling film inspired by Alexandra Fuller’s 2001 memoir about her childhood in southern Africa during the 1980s, when British families like hers were the target of nationalist guerillas ... .
But it feels thoroughly organic when voiced by Lexi Venter, an extraordinary first-time actor who gives, at age 7, one of the more compelling child performances in recent memory in “Don’t Let’s Go to the DogsTonight.”.