Dakota Fanning Archives

Taken (2002)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 7, 2008UFOs and Alien Abductions

TV mini-series in ten two-hour parts that deals with UFOs, covering several generations from the 1940s to the present. An interesting take on UFO encounters with the benefit of some phenomenal performances

Director: Breck Eisner, Bryan Spicer, Felix Alcala, Jeff Woolnough, Jeremy Kagan, John Fawcett, Michael Katleman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Tobe Hooper

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Joel Gretsch, Emily Bergl, Heather Donahue, …

Category: Science Fiction

7 August 20088 August 2026 by Roog

The Cat in the Hat (2003)

Rating: ★★

Apr 19, 2004Dr Seuss Adaptation

Adaptation of the Dr Seuss book made following the success of Ron Howard's How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The book is dragged down into noisy slapstick chaos, capped by a badly unrestrained Mike Myers as The Cat

Director: Bo Welch

Actors: Mike Myers, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Spencer Breslin, …

Category: Fantasy

19 April 200413 January 2026 by Roog

War of the Worlds (2005)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 2, 2005Alien Invasion/H.G. Wells Adaptation

Steven Spielberg remakes the classic H.G. Wells alien invasion story, liberally rewriting it for the post-9/11 world. Not Spielberg's best film but a more than solid work on most grounds

Director: Steven Spielberg

Actors: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Justin Chatwin, Tim Robbins, …

Category: Science Fiction

2 July 20054 February 2025 by Roog

Hide and Seek (2005)

Rating: ★

Feb 22, 2005Child's Sinister Invisible Companion

A variant on the sinister child's invisible companion theme. A fine cast has been assembled but the film goes and kills itself with a lame twist ending

Director: John Polson

Actors: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, …

Category: Horror

22 February 200531 October 2025 by Roog

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Rating: ★★

Feb 11, 2007Talking Barnyard Animals

Charlotte's Web gets the Babe treatment and is turned into a live-action film with CGI barnyard animals and name actors. Here the enormous charms of the original are replaced by cute and mawkish cues

Director: Gary Winick

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Kevin Anderson, Essie Davis, …

Category: Fantasy

11 February 20071 January 2026 by Roog

Coraline (2009)

Rating: ★★★★

Aug 25, 2009Stop-Motion Animation/Sinister Mirror World

The welcome return of stop-motion animator Henry Selick, the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and at his wildly imaginative and darkly menacing best in an adaptation of a book by Neil Gaiman

Director: Henry Selick

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, …

Category: Fantasy

25 August 200918 December 2019 by Roog

Push (2009)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 30, 2011Psychic Powers

A positively ingenious film about psychic powers that comes with an enormous conceptual joy in seeing the ways the various powers can be combined

Director: Paul McGuigan

Actors: Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou, …

Category: Science Fiction

30 July 201113 September 2021 by Roog

New Moon (2009)

Rating: ★

Nov 30, 2009Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance

The second of the Twilight films where the moderately grounded original is blown up into the near laughable with the ridiculously over-the-top hyper-sexualised posturing of its male leads

Director: Chris Weitz

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, …

Category: Horror

30 November 200915 August 2025 by Roog

Eclipse (2010)

Rating: ★★

Jul 4, 2010Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance

The third of the Twilight films. This extrudes the dramatic irresolution of the last film’s cliffhanger – should Bella marry Edward or does she really love Jacob? – with over-padded momentousness

Director: David Slade

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, …

Category: Horror

4 July 201028 October 2025 by Roog

Breaking Dawn Part Two (2012)

Rating: ★★

Nov 16, 2012Twilight Sequel/Vampire Romance

Perhaps the best thing about this is that the Twilight saga is finally ended. This provides a moderately spectacular showdown but also wraps its plotlines up with absurd deus ex machina wimp outs and an infuriating twist ending

Director: Bill Condon

Actors: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, …

Category: Horror

16 November 201211 December 2025 by Roog

The Watchers (2024)

Rating: ★★★½

Jul 13, 2024Mysterious Creatures in the Woods

M. Night Shyamalan’s daughter Ishana directs a film of her own. Say what you will about nepotism, it is a really good film

Director: Ishana Night Shyamalan

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Olwen Fouere, Georgina Campbell, Oliver Finnegan, …

Category: Horror

13 July 202413 November 2025 by Roog

Vicious (2025)

Rating: ★★½

Apr 24, 2026Cursed Box

Bryan Bertino has become a Must Watch director ever since The Strangers. Here he makes a film where Dakota Fanning receives a cursed box and will die unless she places several requested items inside

Director: Bryan Bertino

Actors: Dakota Fanning, Kathryn Hunter, Mary McCormack, Devyn Nokoda, …

Category: Horror

24 April 202624 April 2026 by Roog