Parents need to know that “Kubo and the Two Strings” is an adventure from LAIKA Animation, the studio behind “Coraline,” “ParaNorman,” “The Boxtrolls,&#822… ...

A visual treat from beginning to end, ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ is the best feature yet to come out of celebrated stop-motion studio Laika.

“If you must blink, do it now,” begins the voice-over narration of the animated adventure “Kubo and the Two Strings.” “Pay careful attention to everything you see, no matter how unusual ...

For a kid who has just one eye, Kubo sure can see a lot of things. Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson) is the afflicted hero at the center of Laika’s “Kubo and the Two strings”, a stop… ...

This story about “Kubo and the Two Strings” first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. The idea for “Kubo and the Two Strings” was simple, and it was ...

Kubo and the Two Strings is lovely to behold, if viewers manage to keep their eyes open.It's an animated doozy and drowser at once, an uncomfortable mix of Miyazaki-style imagination and generic ...

But Kubo and the Two Strings’ architect, Travis Knight, doesn’t use the project to show off how many Japanese movies he’s seen, or to catalogue his fondness for A New Hope.

The Reelist is a column featuring Kristen Page-Kirby’s musings on movies. To read Washington Post film critic Michael O’Sullivan’s review of “Kubo and the Two Strings,” click here. With ...

“Kubo and the Two Strings” is dinged by lackluster characterizations and bogged down by incessant references to the storytelling process, which, as is often the case, proves far less of a ...

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"Kubo and the Two Strings" is a visual feast that plays the right emotional notes. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Menu. Search site.

Early in “Kubo and the Two Strings,” our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle.