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  • "Looney Tunes: Back in Action"

    Bugs and Daffy invade the real Hollywood in this manic farce from director Joe Dante -- but the result is an exhausting mess.
    By Charles Taylor November 14, 2003

  • Wizard of light and shadow

    At last American audiences are being spirited away by the wondrous and subtle visions of Hayao Miyazaki. He's more than an eccentric Japanese fabulist -- he's the greatest animator the movies have ever seen.
    By Laura Miller July 10, 2003

  • Pillaging the cartoon universe

    Fred Flintstone as a mob boss! Yogi's pal BooBoo as a terrorist! Jonny Quest as the subject of a gay child-custody battle! All these outrages and more can be found on Cartoon Network's hilarious, hallucinatory "Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law."
    By Scott Thill May 29, 2003

  • This week on DVD

    "Spirited Away" and other classic anime from Hayao Miyazaki, an almost-forgotten '80s musical, the action star who couldn't and the long-awaited DVD premiere of "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo."
    April 15, 2003

  • "Cowboy Bebop: The Movie"

    This switched-on futuristic anime noir is visually stunning -- and it makes a lot more sense than "Spirited Away"!
    By Stephanie Zacharek April 4, 2003

  • No laughing matter

    BANG! POW! ZAP! Online comics come under assault from the art form's old guard.
    By Damien Cave August 9, 2001

  • "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within"

    An eerily human new generation of computer-generated actors populates this earnest sci-fi fantasy.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 13, 2001

  • Priit Pärn

    The Lenny Bruce of animation comes from Estonia, but his influence is felt all the way to "Rugrats" and "Duckman."
    By Chris Robinson July 3, 2001

  • "Shrek" is not Shrek!

    William Steig's subversive misanthropy is jettisoned for winking innuendo in the movie version of his children's book.
    By Margot Mifflin May 24, 2001

  • The latest and greatest Web meme oddity: Hyakugojyuuichi!

    We tracked down the creator of a weirdly wonderful animation site and found ... a home-schooled 14-year-old from Massachusetts.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 27, 2001

  • "Ghost in the Shell"

    How a team of animators made this action feature faster, louder and more kinetic.
    By Max Garrone April 17, 2001

  • "The Nightmare Before Christmas"

    Coffins and scorpions for the holidays! Plus: Two great Tim Burton animated shorts, "Vincent" and "Frankenweenie."
    By Stephanie Zacharek December 22, 2000

  • "Wallace & Gromit: The First Three Adventures"

    A digital trip inside the world of master animator Nick Park and Aardman Animation -- before "Chicken Run."
    By Jeff Stark November 28, 2000

  • "The Iron Giant"

    Even against the warmer, rounder tones of traditional animation, Brad Bird's computer-
    generated metal man practically breathes.
    By Stephanie Zacharek October 17, 2000

  • "The Complete Superman Collection"

    Up in the sky! Look! It's a dynamic collection of classic animated shorts in gleaming Technicolor!
    By Michael Sragow August 25, 2000

  • "Fantasia 2000"

    Beethoven, Gershwin, Respighi and Stravinsky meet Disney kitsch in this sequel to the not-quite-classic animated feature.
    By Charles Taylor June 23, 2000

  • "Chicken Run"

    The first feature from the creators of "Wallace and Gromit" is a plucking good time.
    By Michael Sragow June 21, 2000

  • Not just for kids

    "Just because a film is animated does not mean that it must be a musical, it needs to possess talking animals or it must have a happy ending"
    By . June 7, 2000

  • The toons that won't be "King"

    The most successful cartoon ever made is also the worst thing that could ever happen to animation.
    By Gregg Kilday June 2, 2000

  • DEN, Boo: R.I.P.

    These spectacular dot-com flameouts are lessons in bad thinking, not harbingers of industry-wide collapse.
    By Scott Rosenberg May 19, 2000

  • Prime time online

    Jim Moloshok just launched the multimillion-dollar Entertaindom portal. Can he create the successor to network TV?
    By Susan Kuchinskas December 6, 1999

  • "Toy Story 2"

    Buzz and Woody get warm and fuzzy in Pixar's terrific sequel.
    By Janelle Brown November 24, 1999

  • "Toy" story man

    Pixar whiz Joe Ranft explains the Buzz on "Toy Story 2" -- and gives voice to Wheezy the Penguin.
    By Michael Sragow November 23, 1999

  • The accidental entertainer

    Rob Burgess wasn't chasing cartoons -- but with Macromedia's Flash and Shockwave enabling a faux broadband experience, he's suddenly tight with Stan Lee.
    By John Geirland November 15, 1999

  • "The Iron Giant"

    The metal-machine sci-fi cartoon delivers robot action, retro nostalgia and stony metaphysics.
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams August 6, 1999
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