Animated Movies
Cultural Comment
Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-Comfort Movie
“The Boy and the Heron” finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.
Culture Desk
There Is More Than One Way to Be Exhausted by “Turning Red”
In its attempt to celebrate Chinese Canadian culture and destigmatize menstruation, the Pixar film manages to be both hyper-specific and alienating.
Cultural Comment
Pixar’s Troubled “Soul”
The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for black culture.
Shouts & Murmurs
Pixar Movies for Grownups
“Li’l Data”: a young terabyte works to stop the evil Lord Al Gorithm from exploiting the personal information of his father, Big Data, in the name of capitalism.
Richard Brody
The Curse of the Pixar Universe
Culture Desk
Cover Story: Carter Goodrich’s “Early Start”
Profiles
Second-Act Twist
A Critic at Large
The Fun Factory
Shouts & Murmurs
Modern Mickey
Profiles
Lines of Resistance
The Current Cinema
Only Human
The Current Cinema
The Wanderers
The Current Cinema
Dream On
