Blake Lively going toe-to-toe with a great white might sound more like the next installment of the “Sharknado” franchise than a surprise summer smash. But “The Shallows” manages to defy the expectations and provide the best shark movie since Steven Spielberg scared people out of the water with 1975’...

More than a decade after the release of Pixar’s Oscar-winning “Finding Nemo,” the Disney-owned company returns with a follow-up that proves oftentimes the best sequels are the ones that studios take the extra time to get right. Dory, a loveable blue tang fish with short term memory loss, heads acros...