Coraline

A 3D animated adventure with an adult edge. Coraline (voiced by Dakota Fanning) is a bored young girl who finds a secret door to a parallel world. Initially, it's a fantastic change, but when things take a turn for the worse, Coraline has to battle against her Other Mother (Teri Hatcher), who attempts to trap her.

David Denby, The New Yorker: Coraline is a beautifully designed, rather scary answered-prayer story: the little girl longs for more attention than she's getting from her parents, so she enters a parallel world in which her parents are very attentive indeed - so attentive that they want to take control of her, sew buttons into her eyes, and turn her into a ghost child. Animation is the art in which all wishes, sweet and sour, eventually come true.

Helen O'Hara, Empire: As creepy as it is charming, as bizarre as it is beautiful, this is a true horror movie, but also a warm, brightly coloured children’s fairy tale about the magic behind the everyday. Touches of CGI have been used here and there... but most of the real magic is in the stop-motion detail: the arch of an eyebrow perfectly expressing a character's attitude, the shine on the icing of a cake making it look edible; the glint on a silver claw adding to its menace. (Verdict: five stars out of five)