Jenny Slate

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)

Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Rating: ½
Jan 20, 2012Singing Chipmunks
It may say how doomed the Western world is that people have paid to watch three films so far all centred around these annoyingly cutsie helium-voiced chipmunks. This is marginally less annoying that the preceding two
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The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 21, 2016Animation/Talking Animals
I really enjoyed Illumination Entertainment's debut film Despicable Me but thereafter they just seemed to slip into formula and following what every other animation studio is. Despite low initial enthusiasm, they regain their form here, doing nothing radically out of the ordinary but producing a modestly engaging work
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Zootopia (2016)

Zootopia (2016)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 12, 2016Disney Animation/World of Talking Animals
A really good Disney animated film set in a world that imagines what might happen if animals lived in cities, this is an ingenious reworking of the talking animals premise that overflows with visual ingenuity and warm humour
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Despicable Me 3 (2017)

Despicable Me 3 (2017)
Rating: ★★
Sep 9, 2017Animation/Comic Travails of a Super-Villain
Despicable Me was a delightful debut for Illumination Entertainment but has come close to making the studio a one-hit wonder they have milked that one hit for all they can
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Hotel Artemis (2018)

Hotel Artemis (2018)
Rating: ★★
Sep 15, 2019Near-Future Hospital for Criminals
This comes with the promising set-up of the setting of a socially collapsing near-future L.A. where Jodie Foster is a disgraced medic who runs an off-the books hospital that treats the criminal underworld.
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Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2021)

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On (2021)
Rating: ★★★★★
May 10, 2025Stop-Motion Animation/Talking Shell
This is the most charming animated (in this case stop-motion animated) film in years, a mockumentary about the life of a tiny talking shell that inhabits a human home. My best film of 2021
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Rating: ★★★★
Jun 4, 2022Multiverse Comedy
A multiverse comedy in which Michelle Yeoh is propelled through an hilarious series of alternate selves. One of the most mind-spinning films of recent viewing. Also the first SF film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture
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The Electric State (2025)

The Electric State (2025)
Rating: ★★
Mar 22, 2025The Robot Revolution
This is a film that had the capacity within its hands to be a classic work about A.I. and robotics. Adapted from the art of Simon Stålenhag and directed by the Russo Brothers who were behind the last two Avengers films
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