Early in "Kubo and the Two Strings," our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle. Kubo, a ...

While “Kubo and the Two Strings” won the BAFTA award for Best Animated Feature, to the surprise of many of our Oscar experts, does that mean anything at the Academy Awards? How reliable is BAFTA when ...

Beware the Hall of Bones. With “Kubo and the Two Strings” just a few weeks away, mere trailers are apparently no longer sufficient to build hype for Travis Knight’s animated adventure starring ...

The Walt Disney Company owned three of the four nominations in the BAFTA’s best animated feature category this year, but the underdog—Laika’s Kubo and the Two Strings—came out victorious in the end.

Early in "Kubo and the Two Strings," our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle. Kubo, a ...

First things first, I absolutely adore animation. In my eyes, it’s the most creative and culturally diverse medium in the film industry today, and if 2016 has proven anything to us, it’s that animated ...

› Rating: PG for thematic elements, scary images, action and peril.› Running time: 1 hour, 41 minutes. Early in "Kubo and the Two Strings," our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village ...