October Country focuses on the Mosher family to explore the many ways that patterns shape lives and expectations.

At last, an answer to the celebrity voicing in animated movies! No dialogue.

Part 1. Great art knows no seasons. Nevertheless, some music is made for—or at least can be fully appreciated during—specific times of the year.

And the performers—most everyone game and frighteningly energetic—are reduced to caricature, saddled with silly antics and uncharming dialogue that fill in between the numbers.

This fierce contretemps is, as they say, only the beginning. As conceived by Reilly, Ferrell, and director Adam McKay, the rivalry in Step Brothers has oh so many crude levels to plumb—from competitions over mom’s body, nicknames...