ParaNorman

Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) isn’t your typical moody preteen. Obsessed with horror films to a degree that would should have the local asylum readying a padded cell, this introverted outsider is also able to communicate with the dead. The second 3-D stop-motion feature produced by LAIKA studios is a visual marvel, though the arresting, sometimes-graphic sturm und drang rarely overshadows the story’s pronounced sense of melancholy.