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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A magician’s trick goes wrong and an elephant falls from the ceiling. A secret is hidden in a lie. A mysterious…
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“Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” is as spry and light on its feet as its titular feline. The inherently…
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“Scrooge: A Christmas Carol” is as if someone made a bet that one of the most enduringly beloved works of literature—adapted…
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I missed Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s animated French escapade “Chicken for Linda!” when it premiered at last year’s Cannes,…
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The original “Megamind,” released in 2010, was a fresh, funny, and heartwarming animated film with wildly imaginative visuals and A-list…
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Did the world really need another “Kung Fu Panda” movie? The trilogy ended in satisfying fashion in 2016 with the…
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DreamWorks and Netflix’s “Orion and the Dark” does the Pixar Thing better than most recent Pixar movies. It so blatantly cribs…
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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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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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