Paprika

Fantasy leaks into reality.Read Full Review »

It happens to be one of the most wildly (and disturbingly) inventive animated films I've seen.Read Full Review »

A gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close.Read Full Review »

Kon's best work yet.Read Full Review »

Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home.Read Full Review »

While I liked the film's aesthetics and its futurist imaginings, its most important attraction is how it engages. Some movies massage you; others tickle you. This one jacks you into cyberspace, involving you psychically and physically.Read Full Review »

Fiercely provocative, Paprika shames Hollywood’s use of animation as a kiddie pacifier.Read Full Review »

Paprika, based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, isn't a movie that's meant to be understood so much as simply experienced--or maybe dreamed.Read Full Review »

One thing is for sure: The über-dream is both gorgeously animated, in Kon's shimmering, hyperreal style, and sickeningly scary.Read Full Review »

It's best appreciated by assuming something of a dream state ourselves and enjoying the giddy flow.Read Full Review »