Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The best animated films, as we all know, are multi-layered; giving one experience to a child and a completely different one to an adult, leaving both satisfied. In the Current State of Things, we need earnest films more than ever, and we need both layers to mean something, to matter. That is what The Wild Robot does - it is deeply earnest, and whichever layer you decide to read in this film profoundly matters. Yes, it is a film about…
Stunning. A gorgeous adaptation from a moving book, skillfully put to the screen in a way that feels like a play but not so much that you're annoyed it's a movie.
Also a must see for religious women grappling with violence and sexuality and patriarchy.