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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

Behind the scenes as the Studio Ghibli mastermind returns to film

"...Animated Feature, Spirited Away. When it comes to hand-drawn, non-CGI animation, only Walt Disney, whose namesake company distributed Studio..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Darkest Hour

Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.

"...everywhere by turning them to ash via unimpressive, whiplike CGI weaponry. This is exactly the sort of film I..."

Dec. 30, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Charlie's Angels

Gen Z get their wings in Elizabeth Banks' Angels continuation

"...cringe-inducing hallmarks of early Aughts action cinema, namely cheesy CGI and vapid pop feminism. Thankfully, in 2019, we’re spared..."

Nov. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Beth Sullivan

2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

Cartoon creations from Kobe to Goldilocks

"...helm the French offering "Garden Party," a preposterously detailed CGI comic opera involving a hungry frog, a quick-thinking salamander,..."

Feb. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost in the Shell

Scar Jo as cybernetic warrior

"...a distant second to the film’s cordite-scented pyrotechnics and CGI cityscapes. It’s a given that the current zeitgeist and..."

April 7, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Witch Hunter

The Last Witch Hunter? Promises, promises.

"...Plague), Diesel gets to chomp down on the too-often CGI scenery and hassle otherwise ordinary, Williamsburg witches for the..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos

First animated Mexican movie to receive wide release in the States

"...Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos is the first Mexican CGI-animated feature to receive a wide release in El Norte,..."

Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantasy film about an apprentice Spook battling Julianne Moore's evil witch.

"...rambunctious swords ’n’ sorcerers fantasy flick has grubby, pseudo-medieval CGI style to burn, but precious little in the way..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

9 is a beautifully and imaginatively animated fable, whose vague story about social cooperation is not equal to its visual grandeur.

"...and Tim Burton, 9 is a beautifully animated (in CGI) but narratively compromised fable about – sort of –..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spiderwick Chronicles

This children's fantasy holds a lot of emotional promise but get waylaid by an overabundance of CGI effects.

"...Spiderwick Chronicles. The sophisticated special effects made possible by CGI can bring a fantasy world to life as never..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Although it tries mightily to top 2005's origin story by introducing fanboy favorite the Silver Surfer, this film is nevertheless relentlessly dull and curiously bombastic.

"...Laurence Fishburne and played, under a whole lot of CGI, by Jones (Hellboy's Abe Sapien). As the herald of..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Son of the Mask

Sequel has absolutely none of its predecessor’s manic charm.

"...in Froot Loops-and-Jolt Cola pick-me-ups, marathon PlayStation weekends, and CGI-everything, this semisequel to 1994’s surprise breakout Jim Carrey vehicle..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lion King

Can you feel the shrug tonight?

"...a similar jungle trail when he fused live action, CGI, and motion capture for the rebooted The Jungle Book..."

July 19, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Pete's Dragon

Old Disney musical is remade as a new children's classic

"...from them heartfelt performances. Thus, this mixed live-action and CGI movie turns out to be a delight that features..."

Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Green sewer-dwellers battle purple ooze. Big, dumb fun

"...other hand, something of a gorgeous, hot mess of CGI motion-capture and live action that, while true to the..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Apes and humans: Why can't everyone just get along?

"...social order for a bit (an impressive feat of CGI technology), we learn that there are actually human survivors..."

July 11, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

There's just too much everything in this chop-socky actioner by Tsui Hark.

"...old style, but Hark relies too much on sweeping CGI vistas for my taste...."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.

"...Popper’s Penguins uses a mix of live animals and CGI, but the animals, despite a little creative license, behave..."

June 24, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman play 14th century knights commanded to transport a witch believed to be the source of the Black Plague.

"...Set in the midst of the Crusades and sporting CGI fire and brimstone to match, the plot pairs Cage..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Warrior's Way

An Asian assassin seeks refuge in a small town in the American Badlands where ninjas and cowboys duke it out.

"...degree and capsizes due to a veritable tsunami of CGI. Granted, ninjas are involved, but does the world of..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.

"...can account for it. Amid the eddies of blue-tinted CGI fog and a battlefield's worth of the “red stuff”..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Final Destination

This new addition to the ongoing film series takes a terrific premise and turns it ho-hum.

"...subsumed by splashy but transparently fake (and vastly cheaper) CGI mayhem. I know I do. The Final Destination franchise..."

Sept. 4, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Animation Show 2005

This second incarnation of the Mike Judge- and Don Hertzfeldt-produced animation anthology is, if anything, even better than the first.

"...two of the 12 international shorts here are pure CGI. Tim Miller’s "Rockfish" is one of them, and it’s..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reign of Fire

"...an eye for doom; his dragons (mostly rendered in CGI) are like huge, aerodynamic missiles -- their long, barbed..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brotherhood of the Wolf

"...duties on Guillermo del Toro's Mimic), and some first-rate CGI hedgehog effects that the whole experience is akin to..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"...of a bunch of track rats and the odd CGI-enhanced crash scene. The whole affair feels desperately overscripted and..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's 1999 Classic Festival of Animation

"...it, which employs advances in radiosity that allow the CGI animation to look far more realistic than, say, Pixar's..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...flailing in a generic asylum, plagued by some dismal CGI knock-offs of the Gentlemen from Buffy the Vampire Slayer...."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Men in Black: International

The MiB stay Earthbound in a sequel saved by its stars

"...sequence is a jumble of bright lights and middling CGI. At least Hellboy felt like a tug-of-war between a..."

June 14, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

This giant shark tale simply lacks bite

"...Yes, the CGI Meg is reasonably horrifying, but then so was Charlie..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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Freedom + Juneteenth: A Night of Jubilation

Pease Park

Christina Parrish: Sorry I’m So Sensitive at Velveeta Room

Big Foot Chester (farewell), the Ugly Beats at The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Co.

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