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Here’s something I did not know about myself until I saw Domee Shi’s new Pixar movie “Turning Red”: Apparently I am a 13-year old Chinese Canadian girl living in Toronto in the early 2000s.

Director Domee Shi is excited as she discusses one of her favorite scenes from her first feature: when Meilin Lee, her 13-year-old protagonist, "goes down her lusty drawing spiral under her bed with her sketchbook."

Disney/Pixar film is full of earnest warmth and lovely pops of imagination, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum, either

In "Turning Red," 13-year-old Meilin (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) lives a very normal life, mostly. The only child in a warm Chinese Canadian family, she gets good grades at secondary school, hangs with her three besties, helps her mother run their ancestral family temple, enjoys her dad's cooking and occasionally…

“Turning Red” may not be hitting the multiplex, but longtime Pixar fans won’t want to miss this movie when it debuts Friday on Disney+, as it represents quite the evolution for the storied animation powerhouse.

“Turning Red” asserts the value of a metaphor signifying more than one thing. With any story centered on a 13-year-old’s multidirectional hormones in the sweaty grip of puberty, anything less than one would be a cruel lie.

For better and worse, “Turning Red” is like no Pixar film before it. The film, directed by Domee Shi, who made the lovely Oscar-winning short “Bao,” is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman. Its leadership team, including producers and art departments, is entirely female. And its protagonist,…

It’s only being released on Disney+, but Turning Red deserves a wider audience

Domee Shi’s feature debut is a lively and wise adventure with kindness to spare. Pixar's 'Turning Red' tells a coming-of-age story about a teen girl's metamorphosis into a red panda.