Coraline

This is good stuff.

This is scary, not in the thrill ride way, but in the slow exploration of dark things that go bump in the night kind of way. This is a movie where insects and black cats, rats and the demonic shadow selves that lurk around the corner of reality just out of sight behind the corner of your eye get to come out and play.

This is life writ large--hopes and dreams of a perfect world contrasting the drab eventuality of gray uniforms and candy that's been in the cupboard too long. But there's always a price to pay for perfection.

This is handcrafted, in the way only a stop-motion film can be, where every detail, every second is the work of days. Behind every scene lurks a woodcarver, a precision painter, an intricate machine to move the puppets and control the world up on the screen.

Coraline. This is good stuff.