Out of this world

We call it the “Pixar Pluck”. That moment in one of the Oscar-winning animation studio's films when direction, screenwriting, musical score and jaw-dropping visuals secretly gang up on your heartstrings in the darkness of the cinema. A wave of glassy-eyed emotion crests, despite your best efforts to blink back that saltwater.

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Elio engineers its Pixar Plucks with aplomb. A fantastical adventure co-directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina elegantly navigates the grief, isolation and loneliness of an 11-year-old boy to conjure galaxies of wit and wonder.

Orphan Elio Solis (voiced by Yonas Kibreab) becomes convinced that visitors from another world will abduct him.