Recalling a nostalgic time when the movies really were magic, The Legend of Ochi is a gorgeous tribute to the fantasy genre you'll never forget.

The baby Ochi in "The Legend of Ochi." From the moment I laid eyes on the baby Ochi in The Legend of Ochi's first trailer, I knew I had a new fantasy film creature to obsess over. SEE ALSO: 'The ...

“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid ...

Which may be why the two young men behind me at a screening of “The Legend of Ochi” pronounced it “terrible” as the credits rolled, in the tones of people spitting out an unpleasant hors d ...

To make “The Legend of Ochi,” writer-director Isaiah Saxon borrowed a little piece of “E.T.,” some of “The Neverending Story” and “Gremlins,” and used his music video experience to ...

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“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid ...

The Legend of Ochi feels like a film that shouldn't exist today. It's an original story, not an adaptation of an already popular book or comic. It's filled with complex puppetry and practical ...

The Legend of Ochi (in theaters) There’s magic in a well-made, well-handled puppet. This is a truth a lot of Hollywood has forgotten, but A24’s “The Legend of Ochi” serves as a great reminder. The ...

But The Legend of Ochi is a kids’ movie in all the best possible ways, all the most enriching, magical ways that a kids’ movie should be.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Isaiah Saxon, writer and director of The Legend of Ochi, about chasing the mysteries of nature, as a child and on film.