An extraordinary little film that I reviewed in full over at Vox: www.vox.com/culture/2017/1/21/14325268/the-red-turtle-studio-ghibli-animated-movie

Wow, this movie is a lot more unsettling after the last presidential campaign than it was when I watched in in college....

Superman. *cries forever*

I reviewed this for The Dissolve (thedissolve.com/reviews/1215-beyond-the-lights/) and will be writing more about it in the near future. It's so rare for a romantic movie to just let itself be romantic without shame or snark or irony. For that reason alone it's exceptional, but there's a lot more to recommend it as well.