‘Turning Red’ review: Raging hormones turn a girl into a panda in Pixar’s imaginative latest
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Mar 08, 2022
2 minutes
“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.
This is the latest feature from Pixar, quicksilver in its pacing and clear-eyed in its conflicts between parents and children. It’s set in 2002 Toronto, with a Chinese Canadian protagonist
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