This review of “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On” was first published Sept. 5, 2021, after its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival. After so much bad news over the past – oh, it’s been awhile – many ...

Over a decade after creating Marcel the Shell with Jenny Slate, director Dean Fleishcer Camp now brings the character into a feature-length animation with Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Filmmaker ...

“Have you ever eaten a raspberry?… And what was that like?” In “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” even the smallest questions are the stuff of immersive world-building. The film, a hybrid of ...

Being small is difficult. Everything is out of reach, literally. It’s hard to see over bigger people and things. And forget being included in important conversations! In the quirky A24 movie Marcel ...

The eye blinks. It’s just the one eye, located on the right side of his body, but it takes in so much of the world around him, and thanks to the power of stop-motion animation, it blinks. The mouth ...

Molly is a Features Writer at Collider. With a B.A. in Film Studies from UNC Chapel Hill, you're most likely to find her at the movies or at a coffee shop writing about movies. She also runs a film ...

It's hard to believe that a googly-eyed shell and a silly voice can sustain an entire movie, and yet Jenny Slate's adorable creation proves irresistible. As of this writing, that first short has ...

Marcel the Shell With Shoes On was reviewed out of the SXSW Film Festival. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is acclaimed indie studio A24's first foray into family films, and it is a delightful time ...

“Marcel the Shell” began as a series of lovingly crafted homemade shorts for YouTube by Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate. So when it came time to give the diminutive breakout star the feature film ...