Memoir of a Snail
By Ben Wasserman November 25, 2024
A tragicomedy that seamlessly shifts between bitter melodrama and slice-of-life amusement.
A tragicomedy that seamlessly shifts between bitter melodrama and slice-of-life amusement.
With its animal-centric narrative, this animated film achieves something profoundly human.
One of DreamWorks’ best films in recent memory and another reminder of animation’s emotional staying power.
A whimsical musical and an almost psychedelic trip to the suburbs of Florida; a science-fiction farce loaded with foul language, explicit violence, and sexual references; and an amalgam of noir and black comedy.
Director Pablo Berger has crafted a fantastical tale of great visual (and sonic) inventiveness that is as gorgeous to look at as it is emotionally bittersweet.
Signe Baumane’s original and smart semi-autobiographical animated musical is different and not afraid to be itself.
Without a doubt, the 82-year-old Hayao Miyazaki pulls out all stops visually in perhaps his most beautiful movie.
An animated adaptation of six Haruki Murakami short stories, featuring ghostly figures, anthropomorphic animals, and natural disasters.
Suzume, like many characters in children’s stories, is an orphan who one day discovers that there is much more to the world than she ever imagined.