Pick your fairy tale and you’ll find a reference, with astonishingly fun, creative action sequences in an animation style that owes more to anime than CGI.
Tag: Adventure
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Strange World
Everyone is delightfully lost in a softly Lovecraftian Osmosis Jones labyrinth with climate change overtones and lovely faceless critters everywhere, trying to pantomime meaning to these stumbling humans.
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Disenchanted
It’s worth catching up with Giselle and crew one last time, even if the madness of the Big Apple is swapped for the bake sales of suburbia.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
A thoughtful and mature exploration of communal grief in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a fitting tribute to the legacy of Chadwick Boseman.
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Black Adam
Rarely do we feel like we are experiencing the thing itself, but rather a setup for a different, later event, which will probably not be the real thing either.
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Catherine Called Birdy
Is it a good message to send young girls that they can be bad and do what they want for a little while but when the rubber hits the road they must toe the line?
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DC League of Super-Pets
The smaller humans who saw the preview were delighted, and their parents didn’t seem to be suffering.
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Minions: The Rise of Gru
Is this in any way, shape, or form defensible as meaningful art? Certainly not. Is it really cute? Yup.
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Jurassic World: Dominion
While there’s never really a sense of true danger for our heroes, we get just enough of the range of CGI dinosaurs and their weird traits to keep the film entertaining.
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The Bob’s Burgers Movie
The cinematic debut for the long-running animated series about a misfit family of restaurant owners brings all the quirks and quips of the original Bob’s Burgers.
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Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness
Veteran director and cult icon Sam Raimi brings us a vision of Dr. Strange that thankfully shakes off some of the weight of the ever-expanding Marvel universe.
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The Bad Guys
The movie is clever, playing with heist movie tropes while also presenting a dynamic, interesting, and funny tableau of animation.
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Strawberry Mansion
It’s 2035 and the government has levied a tax on the objects you see in your dreams, which you store and upload off memory sticks. Nattily tweed-coated auditor James Preble (Kentucker Audley) doesn’t like it any more than you would.
