The Sea Beast

While the film’s dialogue and characters aren’t exactly unique, its visuals are remarkable and it’s actually about something. It’s a ripping y...

In terms of sheer energy and invention, it more than holds its own, and boasts action scenes whose wit, vibrancy and gracefulness make Lightyear lo...

"Thor: Love and Thunder" is one of the most enjoyable MCU romps in a while; one that actually that mirrors the spirit of reading a gone-rogue...

A delightful new-school deconstruction of old-school Romantic adventure that never compromises on the lushness of setting, color and emotion inhere...

At a time when the American studios are struggling to deliver fresh animation, [Netflix] has undercut them with a period epic whose worth...

It’s a ripping yarn, a gorgeously rendered kaiju adventure on the high seas that uses fantasy to ask pertinent questions about the stories we...

It's a rollicking yarn, stunningly designed and dynamically animated, with superbly cinematic editing, pacing, and framing, appealing cha...

It tells a simple but epic story against the backdrop of a well-realized fantasy world, it does so at a measured pace that provokes the i...

The Sea Beast gets the balance just right between rollicking action scenes, the inevitable didactic anti-hunting message about respecting other spe...

In the end, "The Sea Beast" is a movie about challenging conventional wisdom and figuring things out for yourself, and that’s a philosoph...

The latest animation from Chris Williams, his first for Netflix, is a rambunctious triumph; an old-fashioned ripping yarn which pays tribute t...

Unlike many modern-day animated films, which find inspiration in fantasy and present us with unique, fanciful designs, the world of The Sea Beast i...

It’s hard to overstate how refreshing it is to watch an animated streaming movie that feels like it actually wants to be remembered.

Delightfully subversive.

The world of The Sea Beast is so realistically rendered, so detailed and physical, that much of the time it feels like a live-action adventure...

The Sea Beast gets the balance just right between rollicking action scenes, the inevitable didactic anti-hunting message about respecting other spe...

Fun, smart, and sneakily deep.

The Sea Beast is notable for its refusal to dumb itself down for a young audience. It’s anchored by interesting and fairly complex characters...

The plot moves as briskly as a ship sailing across the sea, which should please young viewers. While The Sea Beast has some timely messages, i...

The Sea Beast was one of the last features to be completed at Netflix’s animation branch before it was dramatically scaled back last month as ...

Overall, the narrative, performative, and visual splendor of The Sea Beast are enough to vastly outweigh minor issues in presentational consistency...

The animated movies that have sustained in history trust children to follow complex plots and themes. It’s great to see that kind of trust reemerge...

[Taika Waititi] wants you to know that he’s the kid with red crayon scribbling all over a genre that is often more stone-faced than it should be.

I was really compelled by the ideas Taika Waititi was teasing in this film, but the actual style of it – the eagerness to please – made m...

Good news for both lubbers and sea dogs. The recent cutbacks in Netflix’s animation department came too late to condemn this lavish, funny, playful...

Consider this an outlier: a zesty and inventive rip-roarer for the under 12s made by Netflix without the comfort blanket of existing intellect...

"The Sea Beast" is notable for its refusal to dumb itself down for a young audience. It’s anchored by interesting and fairly complex cha...

A whoppingly bland title for a singularly thrilling animated adventure is the only detectable flaw in this exquisite ocean-going yarn. Easily...

Overall, the narrative, performative, and visual splendor of The Sea Beast are enough to vastly outweigh minor issues in presentational consistency.

The result is a movie that’s as fun as it has things to say, a true animated blockbuster that could play like gangbusters in multiplexes...

An old-fashioned ripping yarn which pays tribute to generations of monster movies past, showcasing some genuinely dazzling animation while also del...

The film features dazzling action and a fantasy world that is realised with an almost tactile level of detail. Seek it out on a monster-size s...

Visually rich and thematically dense, Three Thousand Years of Longing muses on romance and possession, as well as the slow death of mythology and f...