“Primetime” and Emptiness
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.

Mona, a young Parisienne, learns that her real father is Moroccan. The only traces of his existence are a name, Mahmoud Saber, a black-and-white photo and a love letter to her mother. She decides to set off for Morocco in search of this man, whose existence turns out to be enigmatic, on a journey that takes her from Casablanca to Essaouira and turns into a journey of discovery.
This is not McDonald’s. This is something different.
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
Fjord, like its story, is not a conclusion, but a beginning.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
"Up" features one of Pixar's few Asian-American heroes and explores the institutionalized hardships elderly people face. Also, Dug is a good boy.
Minus Zero is better than the previous film in some ways, and inferior in other ways.