Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

[Opens July 15 in theaters.] Dean Fleischer Camp's entertaining, poignant, creative, original, witty, heartwarming, stop-motion combined with live action, star-studded (Lesley Stahl, Conan O'Brien, Brian Williams, Joe Gabler, and Shari Finkelstein), 90-minute mockumentary based on a 2010 short film in which a charming, inventive, sneaker-wearing, one-inch-tall mollusk (voiceover by Jenny Slate) that lives in an Airbnb home with the filmmaker creator (Dean Fleischer-Camp), his grandmother (voiceover by Isabella Rossellini), and pet lint yearns to find other shells (voiceovers by Andy Richter, Nathan Fielder, Jamie Leonhart, Sarah Thyre, Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann, Jessi Klein, Peter Bonerz, et al.) that went missing from his family.
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