New in Theaters: ‘Saving Mr. Banks’

Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) cajoles ‘Mary Poppins’ author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) in ‘Saving Mr. Banks’

It’s been a while since Emma Thompson has been a fixture at the Academy Awards; her last win was in 1996 for writing the screenplay of Ang Lee’sSense and Sensibility. That might change now, with her incomparable work in the new Disney biopicSaving Mr. Banks, where Thompson plays the icyMary Poppins author P.L. Travers as she gets humbugged by Walt Disney (Tom Hanks), who’s intent on making...