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Movies

The Perfection of Hayao Miyazaki

A brief note on the genius of the world’s most beloved animator on his 76th birthday.

We asked a group of creative friends to send us haiku in honor of their favorite leading ladies in cartoons.

The franchise’s anti-war argument for the future is still potent.

The Ice King of ‘Adventure Time’ needs some advice, and our house head shrinker, Dr. Scratchansniff, is here to help.

It’s the perfect show for lovers of jazz, film noir, and giant robots.

Hollyhock is a great addition to ‘BoJack’ Season 4. She should be more than a plot device.

Alberto Vásquez and Pedro Rivero on dark and light, black and red, and adapting your own graphic novel.

I know now that I’ve taken for granted how good cartoons are these days.

Twenty years later, there's still no children's cartoon that can begin to compete with the terrors that plagued Nowhere, Kansas.