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Ultraman: Rising
Children take center stage but aren’t the real stars of “Ultraman: Rising,” a new animated superhero fantasy about absent parents,…
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Robot Dreams
Pablo Berger’s “Robot Dreams” is a lovely fable about partnership and imagination, a movie that uses the form of animated…
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Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate
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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Strange World
All the basic elements of “Strange World,” Disney’s latest sci-fi/fantasy flick, are familiar. There’s a family of adventurers, a dire…
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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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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The “Paw Patrol” television series is designed with a single-minded focus to (1) get kids to identify with the characters…
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
My esteemed colleague Christy Lemire opened her review of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” with a quote from her nine-year-old asking…
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