A beautiful story of friendship, forgiveness, love, and humanity although the differences. A humanistic story. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2021

A film of astonishing beauty, Mary and Max is undoubtedly one of the films of the year.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Those adults brave enough to confront the perils of animation will be treated to a wise, visually unique, emotional gem of a film that will leave you wondering how two clay figures damn near broke your heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 11, 2016

The universe that is inhabited by Mary and Max is breathtaking, and must have required years of painstaking attention to detail to forge.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

"Mary and Max" dares to be equally funny and sad, making it as bittersweet as Max's favorite chocolate.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2014

This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2014

A deliciously sentimental film whose offbeat sensibility manages to keep it out of the realm of schmaltz.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 30, 2014

Unapologetically bleak and delivered with dashes of sweetness and sharp wit, Mary and Max deserves notice for being such an unexpected change of pace.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | May 30, 2014

Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.

Full Review | Jun 18, 2012

Everyone and everything is bursting with a hyper-real life that is pitched perfectly to the tragi-comic tone of the story.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2011

Animated indie explores unusual friendship, heavy themes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2010

Funny, poignant and moving, this quirky and clever film oozes heart and insights into human nature.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2010

The themes are nicely complemented by Elliot's animation style, which is full of wonky cityscapes and misshapen characters, something that gives this oddball story a lovely, tactile, handcrafted feel.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2010

Has charm, curiosity and heart in spades.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 27, 2010

An unorthodox but unforgettable valentine to a friendship that blossoms between two lonely people.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 25, 2010

While occasionally over-sentimental, this is a wonderfully unique film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010

It's a 20-year story that absorbs and beguiles, despite the ugly subject matter.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010

Elliot is a talent eccentric enough to make Nick Park look like an office drone, and the serious sadness underpinning his vision only makes the humour work better.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010

Elliot's record of an unconventional friendship revels in grotesque detail and scatological humour, but yields unexpected depth and poignancy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2010

A very odd, very unlikely animated film from Australia that manages to be sickly-cute, alarmingly grotesque, and right-on at the same time -- often in the very same scene.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2010