My Dog Tulip Reviews

Manages to say more about man's relationship with dogs in a single, lush frame than 'Marley and Me' would if it were to run on a loop until the end of time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's an oddity, this film: a wry, wobbly cartoon made expressly for grown-ups, featuring quirky hand-drawn animation and very little dialogue outside the central voiceover.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A beautifully illustrated love letter to dogs and the people who own them...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

A marvelous animated feature, full of quiet joy, honest sorrow, wisdom and a wealth of clinical detail both excremental and reproductive, all rendered in a charming style approximating the dog drawings of James Thurber.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It is told from and by an adult sensibility that understands loneliness, gratitude and the intense curiosity we feel for other lives, man and beast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Here's a boy-and-his-dog story featuring a very old boy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

It's hard not to feel a certain affection for a tale that is so unapologetic about just that: affection.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Words of wisdom keep popping up in My Dog Tulip with gratifying regularity. They're more likely to gratify dog lovers than anyone else, but that's a large group to which I belong...

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My Dog Tulip is as disconcerting and unusual a piece of animation as the 1956 memoir that inspired it, and that is saying a lot.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

For the most part, the images undulate. They often appear to be melting. That, or they're streaked or smeared and wholly unruly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

'My Dog Tulip': A beautifully rendered animation that sadly takes a curious, unfortunate turn, depleting itself of its initial charm.

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Like the best of Disney's animated films down through the years, the Fierlingers' cartoon celebrates its medium and transcends it. There's great storytelling here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Sometimes quiet pleasures -- like having a big dog snoozing at your feet, just within petting reach -- are the best.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Never saccharine, My Dog Tulip does justice to the rare experience of heartfelt, mutual love in any form.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

One of the most sophisticated dog movies ever created.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Dog lovers won't want to miss My Dog Tulip. Adult dog lovers, that is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Transform[s] the seemingly banal relationship between pet and owner into something singular, inimitable, sacred.

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