Robot Dreams

critic Reviews

, 98% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • As heartbreaking as it is heartwarming, Robot Dreams is the stuff good animation is made of.
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    Mark KermodeKermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
    It is a really, really moving film about loneliness, and overcoming loneliness...
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    Tim CogshellFilmWeek (LAist)
    A wonderful, wonderful movie.
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    Adam GrahamDetroit News
    "Robot Dreams" is a lovingly rendered and deceptively simple animated tale that is bursting with soul and spirit and informed by the crushing pangs of loss.
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    Odie HendersonBoston Globe
    Regardless, the attention to detail is stunning, evoking an equal amount of awe and nostalgia. It truly feels like a trip back in time, right down to the graffiti-covered subways and the feeling that you could see the Twin Towers from anywhere in town.
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    Leonard Maltinleonardmaltin.com
    Robot Dreams, loosely based on a graphic novel by Sarah Varon, is a true original—one of a kind. That’s a tribute to the storytelling skills of Pablo Berger and his collaborators
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    Noah BerlatskyChicago Reader
    Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is imaginative, bittersweet, and unrelentingly, almost unbearably, twee.
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    Nathan ChizenExclaim!
    Manages to break through its sometimes mechanical construction.
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    Katie HoganShe Likes Movies
    Robot Dreams certainly is a gem hidden among all the bigger animation studios... but its one that stands on for its style, story and unconventional approach to those more complex situations we can find ourselves in.
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    John SerbaDecider
    Robot Dreams nimbly navigates within the slice of the Venn diagram where sad and funny intersect, and does so exquisitely.
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    Walter ChawFilm Freak Central
    Dog speaks directly to the soul of melancholia. It occurred to me that this film is the perfect analogue to Spike Jonze's Her, about another sensitive, isolated soul who only ever manages to make a true connection with an intelligence he cultivates...
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