LAIKA Studios fourth film, "Kubo and the Two Strings," is a fable of exquisite beauty and meaning, gorgeously produced in the most painstaking of all forms of filmmaking, stop-motion animation. This is the modern-day equivalent of the monks who labored for years on each page of illuminated manuscripts.
Every detail in every frame and every element of the story, set in a magical version of ancient Japan, reflects the simple profundity of the ancient and contemporary Japanese art that...