There are a thousand ways you can ruminate on grief and loss on-screen. You can weave it through a topical HBO drama. You can hide it in a Netflix comedy. You can make a mollusk convey it. Or you can ...

This may be the best stop-motion animation film since Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It has taken 30 years for a movie as ambitious and wildly creative as Memoir of a Snail to grace the ...

Eight years in the making, the 'Mary and Max' animator's droll, delightfully quotable second feature gives voice to the unforgettable Gracie Pudel, who retreats from a world she finds overwhelming.

As a small child, motherless Grace started keeping snails in a jar, writing names on their shells and watching their life cycle — mate, breed, die — with loving fascination. “They were my friends,” ...