One of the Best Movies of 2024 Coming Only This Month

2024 was full of our favorite movies (and sometimes they missbecause, you know, the whole ‘full of movies’ thing), but one absolute favorite of the year is finally coming to streaming in just a few weeks.

This morning Universal made the announcement The Wild Robot-which made it to our year-end list as our favorite movie of 2024-will begin streaming on Peacock from January 24, after pre-production home debut last year. This film, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor, and Pedro Pascal, adapted from Peter Brown’s 2016 novel of the same name, became very popular after its release last year beyond the top title of “io9’s best film”, including several nominations. at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice, and Annies.

Following Nyong’o’s Roz, the iconic robot washes ashore on an island after his company’s cargo ship capsizes in a storm, The Wild Robot tells a heartwarming, often heartbreaking story about childhood and our connection to nature, Roz finds herself trying to help the animals in her new “home” – she meets a lonely gosling she bonds with as she grooms him. seasonal migration is coming.

“In a world obsessed with film criticism, one would think that writing a rave is easy to do. It’s often true, but not here,” io9 reporter Germain Lussier wrote in its an interesting read about this movie last year”The Wild Robot is so good, there are no examples I can cite, no explanations I can come up with, and not many good things I can do justice to. You just have to see and see for yourself. It is very special. “

And now you have every chance to do that!

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