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April 25, 2025
At The Movies: A tactile, retro-coded fantasy in ‘The Legend of Ochi'
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
The new A24 movie “The Legend of Ochi” is a PG-rated fantasy adventure in theaters Friday about a young teenage girl on a dangerous journey with a mythical species.
“The Legend of Ochi,” a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you might have stumbled on and loved as a kid. Something tactile, something fantastical and, maybe, something a little dangerous — the kind of movie you knew you probably weren't supposed to be seeing just yet. They're the ones that tend to linger, like that strange English dub of the Norwegian adventure “Shipwrecked” that I once saw on the Disney Channel at an impressionable age.
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