With just two features under its belt—Coraline and ParaNorman—stop-motion animation studio Laika has not only reinvigorated a retro filmmaking technique, but established a bold new trajectory for ...

All of the best comedies are subversive. And by that token, the new animated movie The Boxtrolls is a tremendous success — it takes the fabric of society and gleefully shreds it, showing how silly and ...

Commercials for “The Boxtrolls” make it seem as if the animated movie is adorable and silly and family-friendly. It’s a story about a young boy adopted by bluish, grayish, box-wearing trolls. They ...

The Boxtrolls is so defiantly weird and bleak, so committed to the bitter end to its grotesque aesthetic and chilly story, that even as the film crashes and burns you can’t help being moved by the ...

Giving animation giants Pixar and Disney another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

Giving two animation giants, Pixar and Disney, another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

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Adults are monsters and cute underground beasts are the good guys in the animated The Boxtrolls. Once you get past Kiddie Fare 101, though, the latest stop-motion effort (*** out of four; rated PG; ...

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Based on the novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow, The Boxtrolls is a uniquely spun dark fairytale for those who love misfits and outliers. The squeamish may find the bug-eating protagonists – the ...

Based on the novel Here Be Monsters by Alan Snow, The Boxtrolls is a uniquely spun dark fairytale for those who love misfits and outliers. The squeamish may find the bug-eating protagonists – the ...