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Kubo and the Two Strings

2016

Travis Knight

Animation, Voice: Charlize Theron, Art Parkinson, Ralph Fiennes ...

7.2

16,750

Animation. Fantasy. Adventure Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Staggeringly beautiful and immensely true, this is the best animated film of 2016 (...) A Kurosawa-inspired epic about the supreme power of storytelling"	POS
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"A thoroughly engaging animated adventure (...) an eye-popping delight that deftly blends colorful folklore with gorgeous, origami-informed visuals"	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"A visually stunning, richly imagined oasis in a sea of candy-colored safety, and one of the first truly original movies of the year"	POS
United States	Sam Adams The Wrap	"George Méliès would have loved 'Kubo and the Two Strings' (...) It’s not a flawless movie, but there’s real magic in it, and that’s more important, and no less rare, than perfection"	POS
United States	Walter Addiego SFGATE	"If the film’s plotting and dialogue had measured up, 'Kubo' might have been a masterpiece"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A dark, yet thrilling adventure quest that stands as the crowning achievement in Laika’s already impressive oeuvre"	POS
United States	David Fear Rolling Stone	"Filmgoers who've suffered through a summer of superheroes, supervillains and sequels/snarky reboots, we now have something that genuinely casts a spell on viewers (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Pile Empire	"Another success for stop-motion giants (...) 'Kubo' boasts big laughs and effective scares in a typically gorgeous animated tale (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"Little kids will be bored, as there are only a few scenes with any action (...) Older kids (...) will soon realise that this is hardly a fun action-adventure cartoon at all, but a plate of vegetables (...) Rating: ★★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune	"['Kubo'] blends spectacular storytelling with great characters (...) an intelligent, strong-scripted mash-up of 'Harry Potter' and Hayao Miyazaki’s dazzling fantasy 'Princess Mononoke' (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"The first and last things to be said in this limited space about Kubo and the Two Strings are that it's a showcase for some of the most startlingly beautiful animation in recent -- and not so recent -- memory"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"The action is gorgeously fluid, the idiosyncratic 3-D visual conceits (...) are startling, and the story and its metaphors resolve in unexpected and moving ways."	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"It is definitely the summer for talking animals (...) but 'Kubo' manages to rise above the rest of its peers with a wondrous coming-of-age tale full of ancient soul (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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