A ★★★★ review of Wildwood

I think this hits very different if it comes out even one year ago. In this environment it feels like what you're buying is a ticket for two hours of respite for slop world (so you can walk out and immediately find out that Letterboxd might be bought by the fascist new york times, in which case this review, and everything else on my account, will be promptly deleted from the website. sorry. I syndicate them all to my blog.) I think Laika knows this; at the very end of the credits sequence, they show just a few brief shots of the process. One of a puppet's outfits being carefully sewn by hand; seemingly endless racks of minutely different faces that they 3D-printed out to animate Prue's facial expressions; the faint ghost of an animator moving with time-lapse speed, days of work to create seconds of footage. It feels pointed. It feels like the people who made this movie looking across the screen at me and going "yeah, we know." It's a very hard movie to analyze, I think. I could sit…

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