Yeah, Pixar movies are usually good, but this one’s unimaginably
great. From its little trash-compacting hero (never so cute as when
he stands up on tippy-toes—er, jacks up on an expanding
lattice—to search for a replacement binocular lens) to its
Apple-inspired shiny white pod of a love interest (as bellicose and
career-minded as any female character in film history),
WALL•E is completely crushworthy. And its storyline,
half Little Tramp and half Benito Cereno, is a
venerable pastiche. (See movie
times.)

Annie Wagner is The Stranger's former film editor. She was born and raised in Capitol Hill, but has since lived in such far-flung locales as Phoenix, AZ, Charlottesville, VA, and Wedgwood. After graduating...