I liked
Finding Dory quite a lot, so I was a little bummed that people seemed to be taking it to task simply because it wasn't quite to the level of Pixar's best. By comparison,
The Secret Life of Pets is incredibly mediocre, and indicative of how Pixar is still often miles ahead of its competition. Even a very charming Louis C.K. performance can't save this film, which I reviewed for
The New Republic.