CHICAGO - Animated movies exist both to comfort us and challenge us — sometimes at the same time. Despite the hurdles of the pandemic, 2021 delivered a great slate of animated features aimed at ...

The Hollywood Reporter's 2021 Animation Roundtable is on Behind the Screen, including 'Encanto' 'Luca, and 'The Mitchells vs.

For Luca, director Enrico Casarosa wanted to show how friendships impact children in most positive ways. Based on his own memories of meeting his childhood best friend, Luca is about how a real ...

Luca is the second Pixar film to go direct to Disney+ after Soul, which bent our brains enough that they might need to be bent back, by something a little lower-concept. This story of fish-people who ...

Occasionally, Pixar actually makes a kids’ movie. Sure, the animation studio’s entire library is supposedly meant for little ones, but the films so often turn out more like Psychology 101 class, ...

Disney-Pixar’s Luca was the most-streamed movie of 2021 in the U.S., with 10.6 billion minutes of viewing time. The film skipped its theatrical release and was released straight to Disney+ last June.

Pixar dips into the ocean once too often with “Luca,” a colorful but thin (and literal) fish-out-of-water tale. Although the movie touches on familiar themes about friendship, overcoming differences ...

Movie review: "Luca," directed by Enrico Casarosa, featuring the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimundo, Maya Rudolph, Jim Gaffigan. Streaming on Disney+. From that ...

Every Pixar movie has introduced its own technical problems, from Hank's tentacle animation in "Finding Dory" to the intense layering of cloth on the skeletons in "Coco." In this episode of "Movies ...

Editor's Note: This article contains movie spoilers. Aurora is a world away from the made-up, Italian-inspired landscape of Pixar’s latest film, “Luca,” but both director Enrico Casarosa and animator ...

Disney’s “Luca” is the first Hollywood picture to get a release in China in weeks, but its opening figures didn’t make that big of a splash — at least, not close to enough to douse the continued reign ...