Early in “Kubo and the Two Strings,” our hero meekly strides into an ancient Japanese village marketplace the way Toshiro Mifune might have entered a Kurosawa film, but with greater bustle.

Not only is the music great but the sound is also fantastic ... If there's anything wrong with Kubo and the Two Strings, it's that the plot is a fairly standard hero's journey.

This story about “Kubo and the Two Strings” first appeared in The Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. The idea for “Kubo and the Two Strings” was simple, and it was ...

like an ‘80s music video. VFX then dialed in the degree of bloom coming off the creature’s body. “Kubo and the Two Strings” “They put gold mylar [from kids’ balloons] inside the puppet ...

In “Kubo and the Two Strings,” a 3-D wonderment steeped in ancient Japanese folklore and brought to life by the stop-motion innovators at Laika Entertainment, magic is both an eye-popping ...

“If you must blink,” a voice says over the soundtrack ... few actually deserve to be called that. Kubo and the Two Strings does, and in spades. Filmgoers who’ve suffered through a ...

In “Kubo and the Two Strings,” a brave, one-eyed Japanese boy is faced with divergent paths to immortality: Either he can surrender his remaining eye to his supernatural grandfather ...

Kubo and the Two Strings, the newest offering from the young ... But the most surprising element of this trailer must be the soundtrack selection, an East Asian-inflected orchestral arrangement ...

The greatness of Kubo and the Two Strings is convincing the audience to understand that immediately and intuit their way through a narrative that must be experienced to be understood. Director ...

READ MORE: ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Trailer ... ourselves,” stated Slant Magazine’s Oleg Ivanov. “Kubo’s music is his greatest weapon in his fight against the powers that tore ...

Yes, fine, Kubo and the Two Strings doesn’t go deep in the tank for character names. Big deal. The film funnels imagination into an Erlenmeyer flask where narrative reacts with aesthetic.