An opening title positions Pixar’s Lightyear as a movie, not within a movie, but within a movie world: the world of the Toy Story movies. The conceit is that we’re watching young Andy’s “favorite movie” […]
It has been a lively month at the Walt Disney Company. Late February saw the release of the feature film Turning Red to the dismay of parents who believe that discussion of menstruation, sexualized drawings […]
(Note: This essay includes Turning Red spoilers.) A decade or more ago, if the protagonist of an animated film had a disapproving, overbearing, or blinkered parental figure with overly restrictive ideas about their offspring’s life, […]
MPAA Rating: PG USCCB Rating: A-III Reel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars In the 2000s, every Pixar movie was a masterpiece. That magic waned, but Soul is a return to former greatness, the best […]
MPAA Rating: G USCCB Rating: A-I Reel Rating: 2 out of 5 reels Toy Story 4 is the first Pixar movie that is not introduced with a charming animated short, and the absence is an […]
There is nothing offensive or deliberately awful about Nick Park’s latest animated film, but neither is there anything compelling or novel. […]
Coco is the first Pixar film to take on matters of the afterlife—including death, Heaven, quasi-purgatory, and the communion of saints—and it is entertaining and heartwarming […]
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