The meandering pace can get tedious at times, but cinematically it's a masterpiece.

~ Nicky Falkof -

The meandering pace can get tedious at times, but cinematically it's a masterpiece.

~ Nicky Falkof -

A self-important, prosaic and ill-defined artistic tableau.

~ David Stanners -

A self-important, prosaic and ill-defined artistic tableau.

~ David Stanners -

Joaquin Phoenix is utterly convincing in this role, conveying the longing and confusion with glimpses of the happier guy he could be.

~ Val Kermode -

Joaquin Phoenix is utterly convincing in this role, conveying the longing and confusion with glimpses of the happier guy he could be.

~ Val Kermode -

While the lo-fi production design on the spaceship - with its man-made webbing and items from food tins to tools strapped down left right and centre - is absorbing in its detail, there's only so long it can distract you from the film's bloated running time.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

While the lo-fi production design on the spaceship - with its man-made webbing and items from food tins to tools strapped down left right and centre - is absorbing in its detail, there's only so long it can distract you from the film's bloated running time.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Hilarious throughout.

~ Andrea Mullaney -

Hilarious throughout.

~ Andrea Mullaney -

Insightful and at times wonderfully playful.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Insightful and at times wonderfully playful.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

The film is all words and attitude.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

The film is all words and attitude.

~ Angus Wolfe Murray -

A warm and witty tribute to man's best friend and an odd couple love story.

~ Owen Van Spall -

A warm and witty tribute to man's best friend and an odd couple love story.

~ Owen Van Spall -

The puppetry here is brilliantly done.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The puppetry here is brilliantly done.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Tiffany Bartok doesn't shy away from the depressing aspects of Kevyn's story, nor obfuscate his responsibility for parts of what went wrong.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Director Tiffany Bartok doesn't shy away from the depressing aspects of Kevyn's story, nor obfuscate his responsibility for parts of what went wrong.

~ Jennie Kermode -

I don’t know what irritated me more: the film’s cosy predictability and thematic conservatism or its insufferably mawkish tone.

~ Themroc -

I don’t know what irritated me more: the film’s cosy predictability and thematic conservatism or its insufferably mawkish tone.

~ Themroc -

To enjoy this kind of adventure, you have to get lost in Guy Maddin's house, because he has made a ghost of a film - 'but a ghost isn't nothing.'

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

To enjoy this kind of adventure, you have to get lost in Guy Maddin's house, because he has made a ghost of a film - 'but a ghost isn't nothing.'

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

As wild as it seems at times, the film is deeply grounded in an emotional truth for each of the protagonists.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

As wild as it seems at times, the film is deeply grounded in an emotional truth for each of the protagonists.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

When Pixar are good, they are very very good, and this is.

~ Andrew Robertson -

When Pixar are good, they are very very good, and this is.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Flashes a light to illuminate different stages in the life of the man who invented himself with style and grace.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Flashes a light to illuminate different stages in the life of the man who invented himself with style and grace.

~ Anne-Katrin Titze -

Villeneuve knows how to stoke the tension so that benign moments become first unsettling and then downright creepy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Villeneuve knows how to stoke the tension so that benign moments become first unsettling and then downright creepy.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

Both female stars are on fine form here, relishing the chance to let go and unleash the full force of their personalities.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Both female stars are on fine form here, relishing the chance to let go and unleash the full force of their personalities.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Well-paced, genuinely funny most of the time and emotionally resonant.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Well-paced, genuinely funny most of the time and emotionally resonant.

~ Owen Van Spall -

Director Edward Berger and his director of photography Stephane Fontaine have made every frame art.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Director Edward Berger and his director of photography Stephane Fontaine have made every frame art.

~ Andrew Robertson -

Rohrwacher’s visually eclectic style is well suited to exploring the contrasts between present and past, natural and artificial, poverty and wealth.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Rohrwacher’s visually eclectic style is well suited to exploring the contrasts between present and past, natural and artificial, poverty and wealth.

~ Jennie Kermode -

The central portion of the film is delciously discomfiting.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

The central portion of the film is delciously discomfiting.

~ Amber Wilkinson -

One of the great masterpieces of modern cinema

~ Jennie Kermode -

One of the great masterpieces of modern cinema

~ Jennie Kermode -

Essentially a celebration of glorious selfishness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Essentially a celebration of glorious selfishness.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though it doesn't really go anywhere new, this film provides a solid document of a series of interesting lives, and succeeds in showing that being good looking doesn't equal being stupid or having nothing to say.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though it doesn't really go anywhere new, this film provides a solid document of a series of interesting lives, and succeeds in showing that being good looking doesn't equal being stupid or having nothing to say.

~ Jennie Kermode -