Pre-teens somehow come of age in “Drifting Home,” a Japanese animated fantasy about a group…
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Patient and kindhearted, a painted storybook in motion, “Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds” is a lovely glimpse of what…
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Born from the still unbridled creativity of children, where an empty room and a random assortment of objects can inspire…
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“Despicable Me 4” won’t win any prizes, but if you like this kind of thing, you’ll like this thing. I laughed. The dumber and…
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Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,” a new animated superhero fantasy about absent parents,…
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Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s a sequel. But after seeing “Turning Red” pushed…
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Pre-teens somehow come of age in “Drifting Home,” a Japanese animated fantasy about a group of sixth graders who float…
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At first glance, the existence of “The Tiger’s Apprentice” would seem to be a grand advance for the cause of…
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It brings me absolutely no joy to report that “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” is fine. That’s probably more…
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As some of you may have noticed, there has been a distinctly avian-related theme to the animated feature films that…
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The third in DreamWorks’ animated “Trolls” series is as adorable as the first two, and irresistible in the truest sense…
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The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to (1) get kids to identify with the characters…
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“Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia,” an animated film co-directed by Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger and the sequel…
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Aggressively mediocre, Netflix’s “The Monkey King” takes no risks and offers too little humor, heart, or action to entertain all…
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My grandfather served valiantly in World War II, landing on the beaches of Normandy, coming home, and never speaking of…
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As the leads in Jeff Rowe’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” spoke with all the momentum of my kids…
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Here’s the first thing you need to know about the animated romance “The Peasants”: It is abundantly and often times,…
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Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi’s new Netflix collaboration, “Entergalactic,” is hard to categorize. It’s billed as a “television event” and an…
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For the young heroes and heroines in the tenderly magical fables by Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, their large-than-life journeys…
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Terry Rossio, one of the writers of “Shrek,” brings some of that fractured fairy tale energy to this week’s odd…
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At its best, Pixar is unbeatable, making clever, charming, and brightly original films to touch the heart and spark the…
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