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‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ review: Artistic animation takes a plant’s eye-view of the apocalypse
Dir: Momoko Seto. France/Belgium. 2025. 76 minutes
4 dandelion seeds – or ‘achenes’ to provide them their scientific title – embark on a outstanding journey...
‘Animal Farm’ review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation
Dir: Andy Serkis. Canada/UK/USA. 2025. 96mins
Initially conceived by George Orwell as a satirical allegory for the Russian Revolution and the following struggles of the...
‘Stitch Head’ review: Burtonesque animation is adapted from Guy Bass children’s books
Dir/scr: Steve Hudson. Germany/Luxembourg. 2025. 91mins
Excessive in his mountain lair, the Fort Grotteskew, a mad professor (voiced by Rob Brydon) is obsessive about designing...
‘Arco’ review: Natalie Portman produces appealing French time-travel animation
Dir: Ugo Bienvenu. France. 2025. 82mins
A boy in a rainbow go well with falls from the sky, forsaking him a looping ribbon of color. He...
’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Dir: Yasuhiro Aoki. Japan. 2025. 90mins
A lowly worker at a delivery firm in a fantasy near-future Shanghai finds himself married to a mermaid princess...
‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers
Dirs: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver. Canada. 2025. 97mins
The riffing, noodling conversations between two Canadian half-brothers – one Indigenous and one white – are the...
‘Elio’ review: Pixar’s interstellar animation fails to hit the studio’s previous heights
Dirs: Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina. US. 2025. 98mins
The perfect Pixar movies make their dexterous combination of humour, emotion and spectacle really feel...
‘Death Does Not Exist’ review: Animation follows young activists into battle
Dir/scr: Felix Dufour-Laperrier. Canada/France. 2025. 72mins
The strain between social duty and private preservation takes centre stage on this Canadian French animation, whose expressive hand-drawn...
‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
Dir/scr: Sylvain Chomet. France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2025. 90mins
The playwright, writer and film-maker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) clearly did have A Magnificent Life – however you think about it will need to have...
‘Ne Zha 2’ review: Energetic Chinese sequel is the highest grossing animated film of all time
Dir: Jiaozi. China. 2025. 144mins
An unruly pre-adolescent demon spawned from the Chaos Pearl and his new-found pal combat off vengeful dragons from 4 seas...