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.

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.

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As hinted at in the second part of that warning, "Kubo" is both extraordinarily original and extraordinarily complex, even for a grown-up movie masquerading as a kiddie cartoon (which it kind of is).

Much of the occasional comedy in “Kubo and the Two Strings” is provided by Matthew McConaughey as a samurai warrior who has been turned into a giant, joke-cracking beetle.

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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.

Kubo and the Two Strings is a magical tale that inspires and entertains, and it transcends its own medium while doing so. This is why we go to the movies.

And though it features a big showdown as its climax, Kubo also features an unexpected, and deeply humane resolution. Even to its last scene, the movie seems to be determined to show us something new.

“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 ...