Trolls World Tour finds a few of the right notes to pluck from its candy-coated guitar that it’s less likely to induce a headache than most manic animated features.
Most Likely to Murder may not reinvent the wheel of holiday films, but its subversion of the genre, especially its willingness to fully indict and satirize its own protagonist, gives us ample reason to invest interest in the future of director Dan Gregor’s filmography.