Review of Encanto (2021) by Josh Larsen for LarsenOnFilm — 15 Feb 2022

Encanto takes on a complicated, mature topic—multigenerational family dysfunction—and dramatizes it in ways that are simultaneously literal and metaphorical, which is something only the best of Pixar usually manages to pull off.

Here, the result is at once limited and meandering, underexplored and overstuffed.