is quite cheesy. That's factual not critical. In this animated adventure-comedy, the glories of brie, gouda, camembert and other dairy delights are celebrated by the snooty, cheese-obsessed White Hats ...

In the subterranean world of “The Boxtrolls,” a gaggle of kid-sized goblins create their own society. They stock their lair full of sundry items stolen during the night from the streets of ...

All of the best comedies are subversive. And by that token, the new animated movie The Boxtrolls is a tremendous success — it takes the fabric of society and gleefully shreds it, showing how silly and ...

A villainous troll catcher sets out to eradicate the underclass and join the cheese-eating elite in the latest from the animation house behind 'Coraline' and 'ParaNorman' By David Rooney Chief Film ...

The Boxtrolls is so defiantly weird and bleak, so committed to the bitter end to its grotesque aesthetic and chilly story, that even as the film crashes and burns you can’t help being moved by the ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Focus Features has released the first teaser ...

Laika and Focus Features are teaming up once again for The Boxtrolls. Their third production will be the 3D stop motion and CG hybrid animated adaptation of Alan Snow's "Here Be Monsters." The story ...

“He dresses like a boxtroll but looks like a boy!” says the man who has been hung upside down from the ceiling. He’s swinging back and forth, long beard and hair blowing, and he’s cackling madly. Good ...

There’s something about stop motion 3D animation ― the not-quite-real textures of skin and hair, the quite real cloth and metal, the subtle gloomy lighting effects ― that says “spooky.” All the best ...

Many intriguing unlovelies are found in “The Boxtrolls,” a new 3-D animated fable that lifts liberally from the sketches and dark sensibility of Alan Snow’s creepy-good children’s novel “Here Be ...