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The Winged Migration Blu-ray arrives at the same time as another good movie about birds in transit: the 1996 family film Fly Away Home, by director Carroll Ballard and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel.

“Fly Away Home” reminds us of the most obvious thing: That movies are essentially a visual experience and that dialogue and plot can be successfully subordinated to image.

Although developing from a small, insightful, character-based beginning to a more Hollywood-friendly feel-good climax, this intelligent, atmospheric, and well-crafted family movie seldom loses its ...

In fact, it isn’t really so different from that of the slick Flipper or the soggy Free Willy or many other movies about kids and animals. What’s special about Fly Away Home is the delicate yet ...

Although developing from a small, insightful, character-based beginning to a more Hollywood-friendly feel-good climax, this intelligent, atmospheric, and well-crafted family movie seldom loses its ...