Cinema Fantasma’s wildly imaginative, hand‑crafted gothic fable more than lives up to its status as Mexico’s first stop‑motion feature—and it’s streaming on Netflix.

“Yeah, I had great meetings with James at several points in the process,” animator Kirsten Lepore previously said. “And the most pivotal one being our initial kickoff meeting, where we basically just ...

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