Getting swept away by a fantasy world is one of moviegoing’s more rarefied pleasures, disbelief dissolving as readily as a pill on the tongue. That makes achieving it a tricky endeavor. Count ...

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“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something ...

“Style over substance” is a cliche usually associated with a negative connotation, but when the style is so fresh and distinct that it effectively masks the substance’s flaws, it’s not necessarily a ...

Some movies are so original, so confidently humming along on their own peculiar wavelength, that watching them becomes a test of a viewer’s taste for the unique. You have to meet such a movie’s ...

Going practical in “The Legend of Ochi” was important to director Isaiah Saxon — and it turned out that was true for A24, too. Saxon was asked about the benefits of leaning into puppetry in his ...

With theaters flooded over the recent holiday season by animated and CGI-dependent PG-rated fare, it's reassuring to see a family film that relies on live action, impressive production values and ...

“A24” and “kids’ movie” aren’t words that have been found in the same sentence much. The closest the studio behind Moonlight, Sing Sing and Uncut Gems came was arguably Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, ...

Have you ever watched a movie and it felt so heavily inspired by another filmmaker where it’s almost like you’ve stumbled upon some lost relic that nobody else seems to know about? The Legend of Ochi ...

In A24’s new fantasy adventure movie The Legend of Ochi, the titular apelike creatures communicate via strange chirps and whistles. Their unique vocals become a pivotal plot point, especially after ...

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