Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, his "re-imagined" version of the 1968 classic, plunges us into deep waters as well as deep space. Simply as a film, it plays like Spartacus in a monkey suit.

The new Apes movie is set many years after the conclusion of 2017's War for the Planet of the Apes. Many apes societies have grown from when the Moses-like Caesar brought his people to an oasis ...

Attacked by what remains of the US army in their California forest hideout, the apes are forced to find a new home. But before they do, a grief-stricken Caesar and a few close allies ride out to ...