FLOW (STRAUME)
Wordless Latvian animated movie Flow is at its best when it lets the at times stunning visuals do the talking, yet it also exists in a...
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- Jul 14
DESPICABLE ME 4
Juggling an enormous amount of disparate plot strands and characters old and new, Despicable Me 4 feels more like an unwieldy, laborious...
- May 4
WISH
Intended as a celebration of 100 years of Disney magic Wish instead plays out as a soulless, uninspired rethread with not a memorable...
- Mar 20
KUNG FU PANDA 4
The fun energy between Jack Black and new recruit Awkwafina adds freshness to Kung Fu Panda 4 and the action scenes are a blast but too...
- Feb 20
MIGRATION
If you want to spend ninety fun and entertaining minutes in a joyfully animated, colourful world Migration is just the ticket for you,...
- Dec 29, 2023
ROBOT DREAMS
The utterly charming and wonderfully animated Robot Dreams effortlessly sweeps you along from one anecdotal scene to the next, until the...
- Dec 17, 2023
CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET
Despite my fondness for stop-motion animation I cannot deny that Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has no real artistic or narrative reason...
- Oct 30, 2023
THE BOY AND THE HERON
The Boy and the Heron is an enigmatic swan song for Hayao Miyazaki: despite the dynamic animation and vibrant character designs the movie...
- Aug 20, 2023
THE MONKEY KING
The spryly animated and stupendously entertaining The Monkey King deftly mixes classic Chinese folklore with modern storytelling and...
- Aug 13, 2023
NO DOGS OR ITALIANS ALLOWED
The highly personal narrative is the main reason you keep watching No Dogs or Italians Allowed even though the stop-motion animation is...
- Aug 9, 2023
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
The animation is suitably idiosyncratic, the characters are well-defined and the youthful humour and energy are laudably fun yet almost...
- Jul 7, 2023
NIMONA
The vivid characters in the sprightly animated Nimona go a long way in making you care for what happens on-screen but alas it’s the...
- Jun 26, 2023
ELEMENTAL
Call me a sentimental fool, but I fell head over heels in love with Pixar’s charming Elemental, which for the little new ground it treads...
- Jun 5, 2023
SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
This sequel to the Oscar-winning Into the Spider-Verse is both too much of a good thing and not enough of a great idea. The visuals...
- May 23, 2023
LUCK
Despite all the pedigree involved Luck is one of the least inventive animated movies released in recent times, with a wholesome message...
- Apr 10, 2023
INU-OH
The gorgeously animated Inu-Oh evokes a seventies rock opera and somehow successfully marries that to the traditional art of Japanese...
- Mar 25, 2023
DC LEAGUE OF SUPER-PETS
Never mind the fact that the film looks like a Saturday morning cartoon, even as an innocuous palate cleanser amid bigger superhero...
- Mar 18, 2023
THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT
You can add as many story elements about magic as you want, that doesn’t mean movie magic will suddenly appear out of thin air as The...
- Mar 16, 2023
KNOR (OINK)
The slight plot of Oink, the first stop-motion feature from the Netherlands, isn’t nearly enough to hold your attention but the cute...
- Mar 9, 2023
PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is to be applauded for its taut storytelling and popping visuals but will be remembered most for one of the...
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