Saoirse Ronan and Harry Treadaway in 'City of Ember.' It's Filmmaking 101: You must start, first and foremost, with a strong story. After a series of slick but mostly vacant outings -- ("The Water ...

Harry Treadaway enters Harkan Square in 'The City of Ember.' The new family fantasy-adventure "City of Ember" bows in theaters on Friday, and I had a chance to catch an advance screening this morning ...

"City of Ember" is a fun throwback to old-fashioned adventure movies. And yet, as a gloriously absent-of-special effects science- fiction fantasy, it feels like something pretty original for today's ...

Life in a post-apocalyptic world is not a new film theme. Humans have dug themselves out of the ashes in movies from "Logan's Run" to "A Boy and His Dog." The only difference is how deep society has ...

It was just in the 2000s when this sci-fi dystopian thriller was released, but you may have to watch it soon before it ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

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For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights - underground. Built as a refuge for humanity and powered by a massive generator - this city ...

A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of Jeanne ...

The Earth is rocked by a catastrophe. The only hope for the survival of mankind lies in relocating a large number of people to an underground city called Ember, where they are kept safe to have a ...