This Laika Studios/Shout! Factory collaboration delivers a well-crafted product that exceeds expectations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2023

The Boxtrolls contains so much charm in its squalor, so much joy in its decrepitude, that the black humor and beautiful animation cannot help but leave an audience delighted.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 18, 2022

If there's anything The Boxtrolls isn't lacking in, its confidence.

| Feb 11, 2022

The final bit that seeps into the end credits is a marvelously meta moment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 3, 2021

Boxtrolls is a truly sweet film and, like other LAIKA stories, is not meant for the youngest, but for an older child-like audience who can handle the complex notions baked within the narrative.

| Aug 30, 2021

It's like Pixar on drugs, a wild ride that isn't afraid to mix a scare or two in with the kid stuff.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The Boxtrolls is smart, absurd, wonderfully ugly, and brilliantly put together.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 28, 2020

Delightful, stunning to look at, and adorable as all hell.

| Original Score: B | Jul 6, 2020

Every frame is a piece of art... It's beautiful.

| May 27, 2020

It's charming and quirky and absolutely beautiful.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 26, 2020

A film that is oh-so enchanting and charming thanks to eye-popping visuals, perfect voice casting and a fantastical story for all ages.

| Dec 14, 2019

The Boxtrolls may be Laika's "worst" film so far, but it's still pretty good.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 6, 2019

While in terms of story, this isn't the best fare offered up by Laika... It is still a rewarding visual experience, is charming enough to keep the attention of their fans, and represents yet more creative advancement.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 2, 2019

The world they created is vivid and it teaches some great values to kids without it being too heavy-handed.

| Original Score: A- | May 7, 2019

The Boxtrolls, a film I enjoyed on many levels but which contains some destructively retrograde messages, mixed in with its mostly progressive ones...

| Mar 11, 2019

Despite its shortcomings, The Boxtrolls boasts enough to add up to an eccentric and overall rather entertaining entry in the animation canon.

| Mar 8, 2019

The Boxtrolls is a quirky and highly enjoyable effort ... , crafting a simple tale about acceptance that has plenty of deeper layers for those who wish to dig.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

The Boxtrolls is great fun that, unlike some of its aloof characters, is never overly pompous in its ambitions, always looking to entertain first and foremost.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2018

The film's idiosyncratic character design and veddy English quirks might not appeal to every moviegoer's palate, but its admirable refusal to beg for your sympathies, deftly executed by a game voice cast, brings out your inner Wild Thing.

| Aug 22, 2018

Witty, funny, fast paced and not even two hours long, I think I might have enjoyed it more than my daughter and her friend did.

| Aug 22, 2018