“The Secret of Kells” is an anachronism many times over, and what a good thing that turned out to be. A ravishing, continually surprising example of largely hand-drawn animation in the heyday ...

There is a lot to look at in “The Secret of Kells.” Nearly every frame of this 75-minute animated feature is dense with curlicued and crosshatched patterns and figures. Your eye travels over ...

A surprise Oscar nominee for best animated feature of 2009, the Belgian-French-Irish coproduction “The Secret of Kells” is a breathtaking mixture of Celtic mythology and creative animation.

The Secret of Kells was originally released in 2009 and starred Irish actor Brendan Gleeson as the lead voice actor. The story follows a young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from ...

Listed alongside high-profile films Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog was a name that inspired only one reaction: “What the hell is The Secret of Kells?” It’s easy to ...

The Secret of Kells, you probably know, un-monkishly copies The Book of Kells, a 19th century Irish illuminated New Testament, exquisitely intricate and bafflingly eccentric in its interweaving of ...

The thing that makes Tomm Moore's Irish fairytale The Secret of Kells so wonderful is that it is clearly the work of passionate and ambitious illustrators. The thing that makes the movie fall ...