Running time: 101 minutes. Rated PG (action, language, rude humor, scary images). “This place makes no sense!” yells a character in the imbecilic green-screen gunk that is “A Minecraft Movie.” The ...

Fatemah grew up playing all kinds of games, initially finding a home in the very first installments of Counter-Strike and Warcraft. From there onward, it was pure grind — all day, all night.

The first time I booted up the video game Minecraft, in 2011, it was still in its beta-testing infancy—just a hint of the multimedia, kid-friendly powerhouse it’d one day become. I tooled around with ...