Kubo is no traditional warrior. The young boy with bangs draped over his patched eye pulls out his shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese lute). Soon, his strumming sends the paper sitting in front of ...

One of cinema’s first great visionaries was George Méliès, a French magician who, where others saw a passing fad, realized the movie camera’s potential to whisk viewers away to an almost infinite ...

“Kubo and the Two Strings” is being hailed by critics as a “masterpiece” and “the best animated film of the summer, and perhaps of the year.” Scoring 92 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, critics are noting ...