Year: 2022
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
“Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” is a cheerful, colorful animated film about a shy, academically gifted young girl with a protective mother…
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The Tiger’s Apprentice
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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Unicorn Wars
Spanish animator Alberto Vázquez is setting himself up for a challenge with “Unicorn Wars.” An uneasy blend of non-threatening characters…
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Orion and the Dark
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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Nimona
A few compelling emotions and themes are suggested but rarely well expressed in “Nimona,” a sometimes cute but mostly hyper…
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The Magician’s Elephant
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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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
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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Migration
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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They Shot the Piano Player
Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba, who co-directed “They Shot the Piano Player,” first encountered the work of the film’s subject, Brazilian…
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Aurora’s Sunrise
My grandfather served valiantly in World War II, landing on the beaches of Normandy, coming home, and never speaking of…
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