Wolfwalkers

[Available Dec. 11 on Apple TV+.] Stunningly gorgeous hand-drawn animation dominates this captivating, enchanting, delightful, colorful, well-written, creative, family-friendly, 103-minute animated film in which a courageous, young English bow hunter (voiceover by Honor Kneafsey), who goes with her protective, widowed hunter father (voiceover by Sean Bean) and pet falcon to Kilkenny Ireland, in 1650, is befriended by a shape-shifting wolfwalker (voiceover by Eva Whittaker) who gives her the power to shape shift, and when the menacing overlord (voiceover by Simon McBurney) commands that the entire howling wolf pack (voiceovers by Maria Dole Kennedy, et al.) be killed to allegedly protect the town, she in turn helps her newfound friends.
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