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Genre: Claymation

Stop-motion clay animation, frame by patient frame. Reviews of the claymation films that prove painstaking craft can carry as much feeling as any live actor.

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Coraline (2009)

The film adapts Neil Gaiman's 2002 novella. The film cost approximately sixty million dollars and made one hundred and twenty-five million worldwide.

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The Boxtrolls (2014)

The Boxtrolls is Laika's third feature and a strange, beautiful, sometimes overstuffed adventure that does not get the credit it deserves. Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable co-directed.

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James and the Giant Peach (1996)

The film adapts Roald Dahl's 1961 children's novel about an orphan who escapes his abusive aunts by climbing inside a magically enormous peach and floating across the Atlantic with a crew of human-sized talking insects. The film made approximately twenty-eight…

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ParaNorman (2012) Review

Laika Animation had been founded in 2005 by Phil Knight, the Nike founder, with substantial commitment to stop-motion feature production. The town's broader population substantially mocks and ostracizes Norman because of his unusual capabilities.

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Chicken Run (2000) Review

Chicken Run is one of the great British animated productions of the early twenty-first century and the feature debut of Aardman Animations as substantial. Aardman Animations had been working primarily in short subject and television animated production before Chicken Run.

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