(Jason Zinoman) ★ 'The Old Man and the Old Moon' The marvelous and folksy PigPen Theater Company tells this tall tale using live songs, puppets and shadow screens (2 10).
Unlike, say, Ken Loach's marvelous "Bread and Roses," "Under the Same Moon" is too busy sanctifying its protagonists and prodding our tear ducts to say anything remotely novel about immigration policies or their helpless victims.
I've been trying to work out what it is that troubles me about Ori and the Blind Forest, a marvelous action-platform game from the independent developer Moon Studios, released for Xbox One this week.
There is talk of installing a planetarium, where moon and stars would pursue their course with marvelous intimacy.
Not a night will go by without having your sleep interrupted, as the urge to observe these marvelous animals outside your tent by only the light of the moon is irresistible.
Our reviewer, John Seelye, called it a "marvelous achievement" and "a holy book" that "burns with a sacred Byzantine fire, a generational fire, moon-fire, stone-fire".
