This space-exploration flick that highlights Pixar's fluidly beautiful animation style is anything but conventional — it's a joyous, tragic, miracle of creativity. What's sad is how unlikely it is to be rewarded for that.

The new Pixar animated film “Elio” takes up a question famously posed by astrophysicist Carl Sagan: “Are we alone?” It’s in reference to the search for extraterrestrial life, but the