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Birdboy's nihilistic coming-of-age narrative captures innocence lost through surreal, striking animation and caustically optimistic storytelling.
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The drawing style bears no resemblance to Japanese anime, yet the narrative tone is remarkably similar, with cute and sinister elements held in suspension by a deadpan cool. Jan 12, 2018 | Full Review…
The drawing style bears no resemblance to Japanese anime, yet the narrative tone is remarkably similar, with cute and sinister elements held in suspension by a deadpan cool.
J. R. Jones
An animated movie about troubled teens, and quite possibly for them as well, because it's so very like them: alternately sweet and scary, tender and violent, dense and scattered, and oh yes, childlike and adult. Jan 12, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An animated movie about troubled teens, and quite possibly for them as well, because it's so very like them: alternately sweet and scary, tender and violent, dense and scattered, and oh yes, childlike and adult.
Matthew Lickona
And though its dark riches can at moments feel like overload, and its narrative thrust occasionally grows diffuse, the story casts an undeniable spell. Dec 15, 2017 | Full Review…
And though its dark riches can at moments feel like overload, and its narrative thrust occasionally grows diffuse, the story casts an undeniable spell.
Sheri Linden
This is a beautiful film, and an ugly one, and the tension between those two sides doesn't abate until the very last scene. Dec 15, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
This is a beautiful film, and an ugly one, and the tension between those two sides doesn't abate until the very last scene.
David Ehrlich
An oft-grisly and always visually dazzling allegorical fantasy that puts funny animals in a post-dystopian semi-wasteland. Dec 15, 2017 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
An oft-grisly and always visually dazzling allegorical fantasy that puts funny animals in a post-dystopian semi-wasteland.
Glenn Kenny
Given how rigid and formulaic most mainstream animation is, there's something liberating about watching a traditionally hand-drawn cartoon thumb its nose so gleefully at traditional G-rated storytelling. Dec 14, 2017 | Full Review…
Given how rigid and formulaic most mainstream animation is, there's something liberating about watching a traditionally hand-drawn cartoon thumb its nose so gleefully at traditional G-rated storytelling.
Andrew Lapin
A film that's easier to respect than to like, filled with dazzling artwork but saddled with a scattered story that doesn't always connect on an emotional level. Jun 3, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
A film that's easier to respect than to like, filled with dazzling artwork but saddled with a scattered story that doesn't always connect on an emotional level.
Matthew Lucas
I guarantee you it will be a film experience unlike any you've had before and that has to count for something. Feb 6, 2019 | Full Review…
I guarantee you it will be a film experience unlike any you've had before and that has to count for something.
Rachel Wagner
Birdboy is a movie whose relatively short 76 minute runtime in no way detracts from its intensity. It's also a reminder that animation can convey tragedy and darkness in an extremely adult way just like any other genre. Jan 31, 2019 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
Birdboy is a movie whose relatively short 76 minute runtime in no way detracts from its intensity. It's also a reminder that animation can convey tragedy and darkness in an extremely adult way just like any other genre.
Andrea Thompson
Forceful images are scattered throughout the meditative miserablism of Birdboy, but the film is uneven and chilly to the touch. Oct 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Forceful images are scattered throughout the meditative miserablism of Birdboy, but the film is uneven and chilly to the touch.
Daniel Barnes
Enthralling and effortlessly relevant, Birdboy is a searing contemporary fantasy, and often unrelenting in its savage attacks on greed, acquisitiveness, the disposable society, and some not-so-subtle jabs at Spanish Catholicism. May 24, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Enthralling and effortlessly relevant, Birdboy is a searing contemporary fantasy, and often unrelenting in its savage attacks on greed, acquisitiveness, the disposable society, and some not-so-subtle jabs at Spanish Catholicism.
Richard Whittaker
With imagery that shifts seamlessly from the kawaii to the diabolical, not least in a darkly psychedelic sequence near the end, this is a film that really makes its mark. Jan 25, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
With imagery that shifts seamlessly from the kawaii to the diabolical, not least in a darkly psychedelic sequence near the end, this is a film that really makes its mark.
Jennie Kermode
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