So it’s not unlike the magic of Casita, the living house of the Madrigal family in Disney’s brilliant new animated film “Encanto.” Forget Alexa — Casita’s a smart home like no other.

Disney+ subscribers get a Christmas gift this year in Encanto, the Mouse House’s new animated musical about a Colombian family with magical powers. Notably, the film’s original songs were ...

“Encanto” is Disney’s latest animated ... Together, they return to the house, where each of the family members, all of them non-magical now, chip in to fix the house. They come together ...

When Mirabel is the only one to see cracks in the house ... songs in “Encanto” are infectious and instantly memorable. Blending just the right mixture of comedy, heartwarming family drama ...

Encanto’s central character, Mirabel (Stephanie Beatriz), realizes that her family’s magical house, the symbol of their power and prestige in the community, is beginning to fall apart.

More than tugging at one’s inner child, the Disney animated film does a painfully beautiful job at portraying the intergenerational Latinx family experience. “Encanto,” Disney Animation’s ...

Luckily, for the Madrigal family from Walt Disney Pictures' global phenomenon "Encanto," there is a small village living in their casita (or "little house" in Spanish) to help each other with ...

If you can really call it one, the antagonist in Encanto is the magic in the house and the magic that gives all of Mirabel's family members their powers. Mirabel didn't get a gift, and her family ...

The plot of “Encanto,” she says ... We later learn that the magic and the family’s enchanted house have a darker side, originating in a traumatic moment after the family was forced to ...

but Disney’s “Encanto” and the Lady Gaga-led “House of Gucci” both gave a lift to two genres that have been particularly battered by the pandemic: family movies and adult dramas.