Wildwood (London Film Festival 2026)

'Wildwood' Is A Soaring Achievement Of Animation

'Wildwood,' Travis Knight’s new stop-motion animated film for LAIKA, is a new pinnacle for the medium.

Wildwood Sees Laika's Stop-Motion at Its Most Beautifully Epic

Review: Wildwood is an arresting, exciting fantasy epic made all the more impressive by the fact that it’s handmade and hand-animated, even if some story stumbles occasionally hold it back.

‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Epic Stop-Motion Wonder Lacks the Magic of the Studio’s Best Movies

On the one hand, Travis Knight’s “Wildwood” is an epic, eye-popping, and almost unfathomably well-crafted celebration of everything that makes Laika special — of everything that makes the Oregon-based stop-motion studio a singular force for good in a film industry where most companies are less interested in savoring the magic of animation than they are in seeing how many shortcuts they can take without breaking its spell. On the other hand, the …

‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Ambitious Stop-Motion Epic Is Both a Technical and Emotional Triumph

A teenage girl enters a mysterious kingdom in search of her kidnapped brother in Travis Knight's animated fantasy film, voiced by an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan and Mahershala Ali.

'Wildwood' Review: Laika's Latest Sweeping Tale

Laika, the Oregon animation house that specializes in stop motion, has a perfect track record of landing Best Animated Feature Oscar nominations for all four of its first films: Coraline, ParaNorman, Missing Link, and Kubo and the Two Strings. With its latest and unquestionably most ambitious project Wildwood, the streak could well continue. This film […]

‘Wildwood’ Review: Laika’s Most Ambitious Feature to Date Is a Richly Textured, Transportive Fairytale Epic

“Enjoy handmade art before it’s gone forever.” Keen-eyed viewers may read these words fleetingly on screen in the early stages of “Wildwood,” amid a wealth of fast-passing sights and sight gags as its young heroine cycles furiously through the homey, bustling streets of Portland, Oregon. Printed on a sign next to the craggly wares of […]