About three years ago, IndieWire’s David Ehrlich took note of a budding movie trend, spurred on by the encouraging words of an affable brown bear: “If you’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” Living your life by whatever Paddington says is as worthy a religion as any, but this particular profundity hit home even more in the dark days of Trump.
While reality grew colder, certain pieces of pop culture offered a warm hug, and the nicecore movement was born.Now, as the world awaits Paddington’s return (make it happen), a small boy sporting bear ears is doing what he can to keep the spirit of Peru’s greatest export alive.
In Fox’s new animated comedy, “The Great North,” Moon, an oddly named 10-year-old in a family of abnormally named men, may not be the next Paddington (as if one could ever exist), but
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