Using 'It's a Wonderful Life' as inspiration and starring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, Pixar's animated 'Soul' lifts audiences at the end of a lousy 2020.

Soul follows a cinematic tradition of portraying the afterlife. Some movies have traditional clouds and pearly gates like Heaven Can Wait . Some are irreverent like Defending Your Life .

The afterlife presented in “Soul” is a vibrant one, ... For most of the movie, Joe believes that an individual’s spark comes from a specific passion or drive. For him, ...

As long as you turn it on for yourself rather than your 8-year-old, “Soul” is one trip to the afterlife you won’t mind taking again and again. Jenniffer Wardell is an award-winning movie critic and ...

‘Soul’: How Pixar’s afterlife movie is giving us life at the end of a dreadful 2020 Ranked: The 10 best movies of 2020, from ‘One Night in Miami’ to ‘The Invisible Man ...

Now, Pixar is delivering two movies in the coming months — “Onward” (arriving Friday) and “Soul” (June 19) — that look toward the eternal and ethereal.

Running time: 100 minutes. Rated PG (thematic elements and some language.) On Disney+ Dec. 25. The studio’s early features were silly movies about plastic cowboys (“Toy Story”) and insects ...

There are many movies and TV shows that have given us a peek at ideas of the afterlife. In fact, the new Pixar film “Soul” deals with the afterlife, and it’s not the first Pixar film to do that.