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— by Chuck Bowen: At its most beguiling, director Glen Keane’s animated film Over the Moon mixes the unbridled free-association of playtime with an undercurrent of barbed satire. Though the film’s story is often earnest and sentimental, following yet another child who must learn that there’s no place like home, the visuals often suggest a frenetic and disreputably pleasurable kind of corruption—an insidious commodification of children’s fantasies…

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