Two and one-half stars. Rated PG-13. 93 minutes. Visually captivating even when it’s narratively uneven, the animated film “The Breadwinner” tells the story of a brave girl living in Afghanistan under ...

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Review • Irish studio behind “Song of the Sea” delivers another beautiful, moving animated drama. Shining a ray of hope into one of the darker corners of recent history, the animated drama “The ...

Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon has already given us two striking animated features that use simple and beautiful images to recount compelling stories designed for adults as well as youngsters. The same is ...

You could say it was bread that won over Nora Twomey. “Around 1999, I was driving in to work and had the radio on, and there was this report about Afghanistan and how they had these bakeries; there ...

In this follow-up to the Breadwinner trilogy, set five years later, Ellis revisits her strong, 15-year-old heroine, now living in post-Taliban Afghanistan. The novel alternates between Parvana's ...

If Angelina Jolie is going to put her name on an animated movie, it’s a safe bet there’s going to be some depth and an important message in there. The Breadwinner (in theaters Nov. 17) spins an ...