FILM REVIEWS

The return of evil penguin Feathers McGraw is a reason to rejoice in Vengeance Most Fowl but while the film amply entertains, it isn’t...

The narrative, the morals and the emotions of The Wild Robot borrow wholesale from other, similar movies but when it comes to the...

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...

Juggling an enormous amount of disparate plot strands and characters old and new, Despicable Me 4 feels more like an unwieldy, laborious...

Intended as a celebration of 100 years of Disney magic Wish instead plays out as a soulless, uninspired rethread with not a memorable...

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...

If you want to spend ninety fun and entertaining minutes in a joyfully animated, colourful world Migration is just the ticket for you,...

The utterly charming and wonderfully animated Robot Dreams effortlessly sweeps you along from one anecdotal scene to the next, until the...

Despite my fondness for stop-motion animation I cannot deny that Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has no real artistic or narrative reason...

The Boy and the Heron is an enigmatic swan song for Hayao Miyazaki: despite the dynamic animation and vibrant character designs the movie...

The spryly animated and stupendously entertaining The Monkey King deftly mixes classic Chinese folklore with modern storytelling and...

The highly personal narrative is the main reason you keep watching No Dogs or Italians Allowed even though the stop-motion animation is...

The animation is suitably idiosyncratic, the characters are well-defined and the youthful humour and energy are laudably fun yet almost...

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...

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...

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...

Despite all the pedigree involved Luck is one of the least inventive animated movies released in recent times, with a wholesome message...

The gorgeously animated Inu-Oh evokes a seventies rock opera and somehow successfully marries that to the traditional art of Japanese...

Never mind the fact that the film looks like a Saturday morning cartoon, even as an innocuous palate cleanser amid bigger superhero...

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...