The wilfully mean-spirited desecration feels at points like wallowing in unpleasantness for its own sake. But the film has a larger point than adolescent sni...

13/10/2022 - Alberto Vázquez creates a unique and moving fable about the human condition and the origin of evil

We rank the 10 best animated films of 2023, including Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Boy and the Heron, and Suzume.

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The contrast between this animated film’s grim subject matter and its bubbly animation style is a big part of what makes it so creepy, our critic writes.

Birdboy director Alberto Vázquez delivers a shock-and-awe experience with a devastating final punch

For a movie that, on its surface, ran a real risk of being a shallow joke painfully stretched out to feature length, maybe having too much going on is a bles...

Today sees the start of the 2023 edition of the Utrecht-and-Amsterdam-based Kaboom Animation Festival, which focuses on animation worldwide. All audiences ar...

Unicorn Wars is a brutal, disturbing war film disguised as a candy-colored cartoon about cuddly teddy bears.

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