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Based on Emma Yarlett’s book, the story centers on young Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) who grows up anxious but learns to face his fears thanks to a friend, Dark, he made one night.

“This Charlie thing” ended up being “Orion and the Dark,” a script that Charlie Kaufman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Being John ...

Orion and the Dark (now on Netflix) boasts one heck of a what-the-heck hook: It’s an animated adaptation of a children’s picture book written by Charlie Kaufman, whose distinct brand of ...

Entertainment Critic Being John Malkovich scribe Charlie Kaufman has a singular voice and most modern CG animated movies look and sound alike, which leaves Orion and the Dark stuck in a middle ...

DreamWorks Animation’s latest feature, “Orion and the Dark,” is all but guaranteed to surprise you. It’s skipping theaters and going straight to Netflix, for starters. On a story level ...

Much like the streamer’s recent Nimona, Orion and the Dark proves the sort of sophisticated animated project that outshines many recent big-screen toons. Many of them are typical for an early ...

Orion and the Dark is a new Netflix animated movie for kids, with one thing that sets it apart from all of the other Netflix original animated family movies: It was written by Charlie Kaufman ...

The protagonist, 11-year-old Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay), is a mass of anxieties, topped by his fear of the dark. That phobia takes a tangible turn when Dark (recent Emmy winner Paul Walter ...

The movie is about a little kid named Orion (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) who is afraid of everything, but is particularly fearful of the dark. Before he embarks on a magical nocturnal odyssey with ...