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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 24 Sep 2014

You might expect that a stop-motion animated comedy all about little trolls in boxes would occasionally think outside of them…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 24 Sep 2014

Enchantment is an essential ingredient of an animated film, particularly one that skirts dark edges. The Boxtrolls doesn't have nearly enough of it…

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By Andy Herren (4) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 24 Sep 2014

The animation is breathtaking, the boxtrolls themselves are lovely little heroes, and the theme of being true to oneself comes across as very honest…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 24 Sep 2014

Technically stunning but aesthetically ill-conceived…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 24 Sep 2014

The Boxtrolls hold their own on screen, too, and children will fall in love with the creatures' mischievous antics, gurgling language and tendency…

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By Jeff Baker (191) for Portland Oregonian (2,019) on 24 Sep 2014

The characters aren't clever or cool enough to command attention in the visually busy world the Laika animators have created, and the story…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 24 Sep 2014

Visually striking and intermittently amusing, but a little of this unusual world goes a long way, with pacing and story issues crippling an…

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By Jason Zingale (478) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 24 Sep 2014

It feels like a collage of much better movies funneled through a grotesque storybook world of discarded concept art…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 24 Sep 2014

More fun and clever than the vast majority of animated movies out there…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 24 Sep 2014

The animation of The Boxtrolls is beautifully detailed, but the story is shaky and off-putting…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 24 Sep 2014

Visually the film is a feast, stuffed with little jokes and surprises and the kind of black humor that Alfred Hitchcock heartily enjoyed…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 24 Sep 2014

[Ben Kingsley] speaks in a sing-songy patter that clings to each vowel like butter on an artery lining, ensuring that 'The Boxtrolls' is as…

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By A.a. Dowd (854) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 23 Sep 2014

In an age when most cartoon companies have traded pens for pixels, the magicians at Laika continue to create fantastically elaborate universes…

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By Joe Mcgovern (126) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Sep 2014

The script lacks the wit of Wallace & Gromit…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 23 Sep 2014

Engaging as it is to look at, this stop-motion animation film from the young Oregon studio Laika seems to have been masterminded by people…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 23 Sep 2014

The movie has its political-parable aspect, with malevolent forces convincing both the 1% and the 99% that they have reasons to fear the other…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for Associated Press (1,685) on 23 Sep 2014

The Boxtrolls, despite a rather uncertainly structured story by screenwriters Irena Brignull and Adam Pava, has its pleasantly demented charms…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 23 Sep 2014

It’s the rare animated film that might amuse adults and kids while slipping a useful message to the latter…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 23 Sep 2014

A child's animated primer on the chicanery, skullduggery, and social gamesmanship so dear to the heart of the grownup world, and a gentle affirmation…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Film.com (1,892) on 23 Sep 2014

The Boxtrolls is a swing-and-miss for Laika; when you move forward with revolutionary techniques while standing still in terms of your themes,…

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