Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums) stylishly adapts Roald Dahl's slyly humorous fairy tale about a reformed chicken thief tempted back into his old, troublemaking ways. The voicecast (George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray) is as good as you could hope, and the old-fashioned stop-motion animation makes the film roughly a hundred times more magical than the last five 3-D computer-animated films to hit theaters. 87 minutes PG.