Movies Like The Wild Robot (2024)

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Chasing the feel of watching The Wild Robot ? Here are the movies we recommend you watch right after.

Beautiful in its painterly compositions and gut-wrenching in its storytelling, The Wild Robot has been dubbed one of the best animated features in a while, and rightly so. The film, which is a bit like if Tarzan were a robot, or if Stitch had to assimilate in the wild instead of the city, is a classic tale of an outsider learning to love and be accepted by her community. It’s about many other things, too, like the violence of nature, the supreme power of kindness, and the complexities of parenthood (it’s deeply humanistic for a film that features almost no humans at all). But for all the themes it tackles and the colorful multitude of characters it covers, it feels incredibly light and easy to watch. Perhaps that’s due to its hand-drawn aesthetics, which recall Studio Ghibli films more than anything, and to the voices who bring the characters to life, most notably that of Lupita Nyong'o, who gives the robot Roz so much warmth and depth despite her electronic limitations. All these and more make Wild Robot a must-watch, if not an instant classic.

There is nothing quite like The Substance right now. It’s unsubtle, it’s provocative, and its satirical humor can be a hit or miss for some viewers, but it strikes at the one thing that’s fundamental to everyone, that can make or break their lives, yet that is rarely given grace and consideration– that is the body. Legions of people have yearned for youth and beauty, but The Substance systematically outlines how much these have been intertwined with our livelihoods, opportunities, and identities, and how other entities would capitalize on this yearning and push many of us to take that out, suck that out, literally, from ourselves. The Substance does this all with insane, frenetic energy.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Actor: Andrew Desmond, Ashley Lambert, Christian Erickson, Demi Moore, Dennis Quaid, Edward Hamilton-Clark, Gore Abrams, Hugo Diego Garcia, Jonathon Carley, Margaret Qualley, Matthew Géczy, Michael Corbett, Nathan Rippy, Olivier Raynal, Oscar Lesage, Philip Schurer, Ranjani Brow, Robin Greer, Shane Sweet, Stephen Apostolina, Tiffany Hofstetter, Tom Morton, Vincent Colombe, Yann Bean

Director: Coralie Fargeat

Rating: R