![]() ![]() Fox (Meryl Streep), the antihero’s former partner in crime, says “I’m pregnant.” There’s plenty of angst, of the grown-up and teen varieties, to go around. Their Fox script softens the dysfunctional edges without sugarcoating the director’s ideas about the nuclear family and conflicted father figures. That strange adventure, like this film, was co-written by Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Miss Manners would not approve.Īmong Anderson’s films, Fox hews closest to The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou in its handmade aesthetic, though its vision is far less, well, fantastic. They kill to survive, and when they eat, they devour. They’re furry animals who walk upright and dress with style but who are, we’re reminded on more than one occasion, wild creatures. ![]() The word “texture” gets tossed around a lot, but this stop-motion escapade is alive with it, beginning with the puppets by U.K. 13 in New York and Los Angeles before going wide for Thanksgiving, is not likely to dethrone Disney’s Princess in the year-end animation tallies, but word-of-mouth should make it a cunning alt-family-fare contender. The movie, which premiered at the London fest and bows Nov. ![]()
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