‘Wendell and Wild’ review: Jordan Peele and Henry Selick deliver a dark gem

Henry Selick masterfully handcrafts nightmares. The Academy Award-nominated animator has brought to life savage realms in James and the Giant Peach, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Coraline. With stop-motion animation, his fingers have crafted carefully constructed characters, grounded physicalities, and daring designs that refute the dedicatedly cutesy aesthetic of their computer-animated peers. With his latest, Wendell & Wild, he…