Staff Picks: Onward

December 24, 2020December 21, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Josh Pearce picks Onward as a top film of 2020: “This movie was so good. I thought it was the saddest Pixar movie ever, sadder than Up. But I also think that Pixar movies are highly subjective, so your mileage may vary. Monsters, Inc. is still my favorite Pixar film, but Onward is not far behind it.”

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