Animation Feature Reviews

The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki by Mamoru Hosoda is a well-studied but lifeless experiment on identity and the motive of the feral child.

Approved for Adoption (Couleur de peau: miel / Skin color: honey) by Jung and Laurent Boileau  is a welcome study of a neglected area in child development, but minimizes all the harsh edges of the adoption predicament it describes.

A new documentary film on the French pioneer illustrator and animator, Benjamin Rabier, the man behind the laughing cow. Read the film review.

The stop-motion feature film Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe, by the Uruguayan director Walter Tournier is short of flashy adventures, but full of character motivation.

Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such A Beautiful Day is a heart-breaking and mesmerizing film on life and the passing of time. 

Daddy, I'm A Zombie offers a consistent young adolescent adventure to the zombie world, even though its Wizard of Oz narrative strategy makes the film more of a deja-vu.

Tim Burton's stop-motion Frankenweenie is a welcome reminder of what classic horror pictures used to be, but it prefers to describe horror rather than cause it.

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman portrays Graham Chapman as a person who defied etiquette.

The French film Day of the Crows is a most welcome, beautiful and well-constructed story of a savage environment with its long-hidden secrets.