Kubo and the Two Strings

“Representing a dazzling artistic leap forward for LAIKA, the stop-motion animation studio’s fourth feature — and first full-blown fantasy — is an eye-popping delight that deftly blends colorful folklore with gorgeous, origami-informed visuals to immersive effect.”

Michael Rechtshaffen, The Hollywood Reporter · 100

“Staggeringly beautiful and immensely true, the best animated film of 2016 — one of the year’s best films of any kind, really.”

David Ehrlich, IndieWire · 100

“From its opening image — of a distraught woman battling massive ocean waves on a moonlit night — to its surprisingly ambiguous final shot — of what, I won't say — Kubo and the Two Strings sears itself into your brain.”

Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice · 100

“"Kubo" is both extraordinarily original and extraordinarily complex.”

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post · 100

“The action is gorgeously fluid, the idiosyncratic 3-D visual conceits (including floating eyeballs undersea) are startling, and the story and its metaphors resolve in unexpected and moving ways.”

Glenn Kenny, The New York Times · 100