Most survival movies end in rescue. In “The Martian,” Matt Damon makes it home to tell his tale; in “127 Hours,” James Franco, albeit painfully, escapes the boulder that entraps him; in “Cast Away,” ...

An image from director Michael Dudok de Wit's animated fable 'The Red Turtle,' one of five films nominated for the Oscar for best animated feature in 2017. (Sony Pictures Classics) Though it is among ...

Saying not a single word but conveying tons of meaning in every moment, the animated "The Red Turtle" is a fable that is as simple as it is beautiful. The story begins with a castaway, a man stranded ...

We’re born; life washes us up on various shores; we build our sand castles and navigate the years; we die. From this four-part miniseries we call human existence, the Dutch animator Michael Dudok de ...

Three stars. Rated PG. 80 minutes. By Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post The Academy Award-nominated “The Red Turtle,” from Dutch animator Michael Dudok de Wit, is a sweet, surreal reverie of a film.

The film recently earned five Annie Award nominations including best animated indie feature and best direction. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor The Red Turtle got a boost in the awards race on Monday ...

Not a single intelligible word is spoken in Michael Dudok de Wit’s poignant animated drama “The Red Turtle,” and after a while that silence becomes companionable; you find, in this film, a restful ...

“The Red Turtle” is a visually stunning poetic fable, but there’s more on its mind than simply beauty. The first full-length work by Oscar-winning Dutch filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit and a ...

Dutch-British Dudok de Wit’s film is an international affair, co-financed by studios out of Japan, Belgium and France. Perhaps born from that kind of multilingual pedigree, The Red Turtle carries a ...

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There is a distinct challenge in writing about director Michael Dudok de Wit's animated feature, and Oscar nominee, The Red Turtle. Any synopsis of the movie that goes beyond the briefest of ...