2020 · animation · family · fantasy
Wolfwalkers
Directed by Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart1h 42m2020
In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
Our read: Wolfwalkers (2020) reads as a warm, steady, inventive animation · family · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, steady, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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