Its spell is irresistible.

| Jan 27, 2021

Here is an animated film that finds new beauty in ancient traditions; a film that fights back against the temptation to surrender what little magic this world still has left, and fulfills Cartoon Saloon's promise along the way.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 27, 2021

It's glorious, gorgeous, and more than a little profound.

| Dec 13, 2020

To watch Wolfwalkers is to dive into visual splendor.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 12, 2020

Wolfwalkers does its world-building through emotional voice-work, through lush, hand-drawn animation, and through visual style for days.

| Dec 11, 2020

There's an ecological parable going on here, no doubt. Girl power is a running theme as well. But I was most knocked out by "Wolfwalkers' " metaphors for the long, sad colonization.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 11, 2020

"Wolfwalkers" lyrically sets up a man vs. nature battle, told in grand Irish storytelling that honors and respects its origins while spinning a damn good tale.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 10, 2020

The film is terrific fare for kids. But the underpinnings of its fantastical story lie in tortured Irish history... Adults will be eager to see where it's all going to go.

| Dec 9, 2020

Wolfwalkers deserves a new level of praise for the way it takes previous Cartoon Saloon themes (such as the porous relationship between man and nature) to new heights of artistry.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 21, 2020

The pleasures these animators bring us hark back to plucky classics of the form... and the primitivism of the aesthetic pays charming dividends all the way through.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2020

It is the type of stirring entertainment that delivers both the thrill of the moment and the kind of sophisticated ideas that can lead to discussion and even debate long after viewing.

| Nov 17, 2020

It would be worth watching even if it were just for its beauty, but the story is very interesting.

| Nov 14, 2020

Wolfwalkers casts a spell that will linger for a long, long time.

| Nov 14, 2020

So many strands, and when the full tapestry is unfurled, its captivating, beautiful, thrilling, and entrancing patterns are revealed. Wolfwalkers stands proud as a new classic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2020

The flattened backgrounds hark back to Disney's 1959 "Sleeping Beauty." There's a slightly rough, hand-drawn quality to the work throughout, and the colors are bold and vibrant.

| Nov 12, 2020

[T]here's nothing quite as transporting-and sometimes transformative-as a work of animation that devotes itself to shaking up your reality.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 11, 2020

Watch it again (and again) just to revel in the staggering artistry of the animation and the joyous, unruly energy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 31, 2020

Cinema that can be life-affirming...funny, smart and a big warm hug of a movie...

| Oct 30, 2020

This is a charming and thoroughly likable film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 30, 2020

The storyline's edges are frayed just enough to give it the gentle distance of a tale recalled though the gauze of myth and memory.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 27, 2020