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Illumination, maker of “Despicable Me,“ “Sing” and “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” has built its animation empire by mostly staying close to a child-like outlook. Illumination’s in-house mascots, the Minions, are basically themselves careening toddlers. But the studio’s latest, “Migration,” carries a faintly more parental perspective. Its central character is a father duck, Mack Mallard […]

"Migration" is very comfortably the second-best heron-featuring movie in theaters right now. Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" is far richer in both its imagination and its menagerie of avian life.

This week, pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, American Fiction, The Iron Claw, Migration and The Zone of Interest.

Migration may pass the time, but my guess is that those kids will retain more lasting memories of whatever their parents got for them at the concession stand than anything up there on the screen.

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“Migration” is swift and appealing, and the flying scenes are remarkably conceived and executed.

Illuminations “Migration” is vividly animated with warm cartoon tones that would do Daffy proud. But it never quite spreads its wings, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

“Migration” tells the lukewarm, if beautifully animated, visually inventive and often funny tale of a family of mallards that must overcome the timidity of its patriarch.

An animated feature written by Mike White (“The White Lotus”) stars Awkwafina, Elizabeth Banks and Kumail Nanjiani as birds, but it never fully gets off the ground.

The film features a family of ducks as they go on a wild family road trip for their first winter migration south to Jamaica.