Our Call:The Wild Robot is thoughtful, moving and almost endlessly appealing. STREAM IT and then STREAM IT again. John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Along the way, this intelligent stranded robot learns to communicate with the forest's inhabitants, including a family of possums, foxes, otters, bears, raccoons, deer, geese and porcupines.

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