Review of Earwig and the Witch (2021) by David Ehrlich for IndieWire — 02 Jun 2021
While Earwig and the Witch is far from the ugliest film of its kind, there’s something uniquely perverse about seeing Ghibli’s signature aesthetic suffocated inside a plastic coffin and sapped of its brilliant soul; about seeing the studio’s lush green worlds replaced by lifeless backdrops, and its hyper-expressive character designs swapped out for cheap dolls so devoid of human emotion that even the little kids look Botoxed with an inch of their lives.
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This review of Earwig and the Witch (2021) was written by David Ehrlich and published by IndieWire on 02 Jun 2021.
Earwig and the Witch has generally received mixed reviews.
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