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…
Read More »“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…
Read More »Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,” a new animated superhero fantasy about absent parents,…
Read More »Wait. Pixar finally has a quality animated film hitting theaters? Granted, it’s a sequel. But after seeing “Turning Red” pushed…
Read More »A few compelling emotions and themes are suggested but rarely well expressed in “Nimona,” a sometimes cute but mostly hyper…
Read More »Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination, a movie that uses the form of animated…
Read More »I cannot think of a single reason for another Garfield movie, and apparently, the people who made this couldn’t, either.…
Read More »My grandfather served valiantly in World War II, landing on the beaches of Normandy, coming home, and never speaking of…
Read More »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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