10 new trailers you should watch this week
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Every year ahead of the Oscars, all of the animated and live action shorts get bundled together and screened in theaters so people have a chance to check them out. I always go see the animated ones, and theyre always a lovely, strange, beautiful, and very mixed bag.
This years had some obvious standouts: Hair Love, which won, really deserves to be a feature; and Kitbull, by Pixar, was heartbreaking and had the best animated cat Ive ever seen. The other three had some lovely animation Daughter was my least favorite of the package, and even that one I admired for the way it brought a natural, shaky camera movement to stop-motion animation, which is something Ive never seen before.
The company that packs all the shorts together always…