‘Lucy Lost’ Review: A Winsome Family Animation With Welcome Narrative Complexity

From the blockbuster signifier and surface iterations of “War Horse” to the underseen “When the Whales Came” to the recent, BAFTA-winning “Kensuke’s Kingdom,” the books of English writer Michael Morpurgo person reliably made for sturdy, literate household films of a comfortingly old-fashioned stripe. That streak continues with “Lucy Lost.” A handsome and emotionally involving wartime […]