The chant echoed as Huntr/x broke into their anthem — and for a moment, I had to remind myself it wasn’t just an animated film I was watching. It was the KPop Demon Hunters, flesh and blood before me, ...

Regular moviegoers — and even some Academy members — often believe that directing an animated feature means standing over an artist’s shoulder and simply saying, “Draw this.” But the six directors ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...