The Wild Robot (2024)

‘The Wild Robot’ is a sweet, slight story of a robot bonding with nature. Lupita Nyong’o is the main voice here, in the story of Roz, the ‘bot who ends up accidentally arriving on an island teeming with life, and who helps raise a gosling.

Opening in theaters on September 27th, ‘The Wild Robot’ is the latest release from ‘Shrek’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ studio DreamWorks Animation and director Chris Sanders, who here adapts Peter Brown’s children’s book to winning effect. The tale of a robot whose delivery container crash lands on an isolated island populated entirely by animals, it embraces themes such as figuring out who you really need to be beyond who you’re told to be, and kindness as a survival method.