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Following its own brand of logic, Paprika is an eye-opening mind trip that is difficult to follow but never fails to dazzle.
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With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore. August 9, 2007 | Rating: 2/5
With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore.
Roger Moore
You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look. July 13, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/5
You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look.
Richard Nilsen
Is it sci-fi? Fantasy? Idiocy? Mostly it's a droning mess -- pretty to look at but confounding to the point where you just don't care any more. June 22, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Is it sci-fi? Fantasy? Idiocy? Mostly it's a droning mess -- pretty to look at but confounding to the point where you just don't care any more.
Bruce Westbrook
Especially for fans who understand how movies are put together, Paprika grabs you from the get-go in a series of flowing images and transitions that follow the skewed logic of a dream, jumping from a three-ring circus to a swinging jungle vine. June 22, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Especially for fans who understand how movies are put together, Paprika grabs you from the get-go in a series of flowing images and transitions that follow the skewed logic of a dream, jumping from a three-ring circus to a swinging jungle vine.
John Monaghan
As a showcase of the limitless power of the imagination, Paprika never fails to delight the eye and engage the mind. We are never sure exactly whom we should be cheering for, or even if we're rooting for real characters or their avatars. June 15, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
As a showcase of the limitless power of the imagination, Paprika never fails to delight the eye and engage the mind. We are never sure exactly whom we should be cheering for, or even if we're rooting for real characters or their avatars.
Peter Howell
We're so used to current cautious commercial formulas, it comes as an enjoyable shock to see something like Satoshi Kon's Japanese film, Paprika, which reminds us that with animation, almost anything you can imagine can be represented. June 15, 2007 | Rating: 3/4
We're so used to current cautious commercial formulas, it comes as an enjoyable shock to see something like Satoshi Kon's Japanese film, Paprika, which reminds us that with animation, almost anything you can imagine can be represented.
Liam Lacey
This is what animation is meant to be. January 24, 2020 | Full Review…
This is what animation is meant to be.
Ard Vijn
Though Kon sometimes hits on startling visions ripped straight from your head last night, he's ultimately more interested in film theory than the Freudian sort, evoking dreams in a way that's most faithful to dream sequences. October 25, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Though Kon sometimes hits on startling visions ripped straight from your head last night, he's ultimately more interested in film theory than the Freudian sort, evoking dreams in a way that's most faithful to dream sequences.
Troy Patterson
Its Inception-inspiring premise of a young woman who can expertly dive into other people's dreams fully exploits the fluid, plastic capacities of animation to realise an ever-shifting, unstable world ruled by arbitrariness and id March 17, 2018 | Full Review…
Its Inception-inspiring premise of a young woman who can expertly dive into other people's dreams fully exploits the fluid, plastic capacities of animation to realise an ever-shifting, unstable world ruled by arbitrariness and id
Anton Bitel
Yes, Paprika is a masterpiece. The animation medium lends itself so perfectly to dream capers that it's no wonder Kon's final film is regarded a perfect marriage of form and subject. December 14, 2017 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
Yes, Paprika is a masterpiece. The animation medium lends itself so perfectly to dream capers that it's no wonder Kon's final film is regarded a perfect marriage of form and subject.
Scott Clark
Paprika has the curious effect of making you feel strangely happy afterwards, as if some internal load you hadn't even realized you were carrying is suddenly lifted. It sings. Go see it, even if it's not your birthday, you might feel like it is. August 23, 2017 | Full Review…
Paprika has the curious effect of making you feel strangely happy afterwards, as if some internal load you hadn't even realized you were carrying is suddenly lifted. It sings. Go see it, even if it's not your birthday, you might feel like it is.
Dorothy Woodend
Reality and fantasy leak into each other in short-circuiting jolts in Kon's cosmos August 27, 2009 | Full Review…
Reality and fantasy leak into each other in short-circuiting jolts in Kon's cosmos
Fernando F. Croce
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