The Wild Robot

A shipwrecked A.I. called Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) builds a community of animals pals on a desert island in this beguiling adaptation of Peter Brown’s bestselling kids novel. How to Train Your Dragon’s Chris Sanders marshalls plenty of natural peril – big storms, bitter winters – and a refreshingly unsentimental look at life (and death) in the natural world into a tale that’s cute, but rarely cutesy. The voice cast is seriously winning, with Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Pedro Pascal, Mark Hamill and the inimitable Matt Berry (as a grumpy, tree-chomping bee-vair), joining Nyong’o in voicing this delightful ensemble of birds and mammals. Just don’t ask how they can all speak to each other.