At least Anne Hathaway is having a good time in HBO Max's 'The Witches'

HBO Max's new adaptation of The Witches is largely a bore: not strange enough to be spooky, not sweet enough to be touching, not smart enough to be deep. It retains neither the horror of Nicolas Roeg's 1990 adaptation nor the cleverness of Roald Dahl's 1983 novel (though those versions had their problems too), and ends up the...