Even by the standards of kids’ movies about genocide and the frequent uselessness of fathers, “The Boxtrolls” isn't very much fun at all. A surprisingly charmless and aimless movie from Laika Studios, ...

Giving animation giants Pixar and Disney another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... There comes a moment in “The Boxtrolls” when a terrific allergic reaction of social-striving baddie Archibald Snatcher elicits an understandably revolted ...

A villainous troll catcher sets out to eradicate the underclass and join the cheese-eating elite in the latest from the animation house behind 'Coraline' and 'ParaNorman' By David Rooney Chief Film ...

Giving two animation giants, Pixar and Disney, another run for their box office money, the Oregon-based LAIKA animation studio has a new contender in “The Boxtrolls.” Two previous LAIKA films, 2012’s ...

All of the best comedies are subversive. And by that token, the new animated movie The Boxtrolls is a tremendous success — it takes the fabric of society and gleefully shreds it, showing how silly and ...

Commercials for “The Boxtrolls” make it seem as if the animated movie is adorable and silly and family-friendly. It’s a story about a young boy adopted by bluish, grayish, box-wearing trolls. They ...

Fall, in my opinion, never officially starts until a stop-motion animated film has been released. Continuing in the tradition of “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Coraline” and “ParaNorman,” “The ...

At last night’s Awardsline screening of Focus Features’ The Boxtrolls, directors Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable brought their bag of tricks, err, stop-motion dolls, and revealed to the audience ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The town of Cheesebridge—the setting for The Boxtrolls—rises from the water's edge like a traffic cone dotted with teetering Victorian buildings. It's a mad, dizzying construction of spiraling streets ...