Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Carrie Rickey
This psycho-thriller, a Golden Globe winner and presumptive favorite for the foreign-film Oscar, itself is revelatory.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
Provocative, hallucinatory, incendiary, this devastating animated documentary is unlike any Israeli film you've seen. More than that, in its seamless mixing of the real and the surreal, the personal and the political, animation and live action, it's unlike any film you've seen, period.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: John Anderson
A thinking person's horror movie, about real horror and horrifying echoes: The parallels between the Holocaust and the massacres are pronounced.Read Full Review »
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NewsWeek: David Ansen
The images of war that Folman and his chief illustrator, David Polonsky, conjure up have a feverish, infernal beauty. Dreams and reality jumble together.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Andrew O'Hehir
The results, in my judgment, are stunning...and at certain moments during the film I wondered whether I had myself fallen asleep and was dreaming its hellish, haunted images.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: A.O. Scott
A memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Folman is an Israeli documentarian who has not worked in animation. Now he uses it as the best way to reconstruct memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present. This film would be nearly impossible to make any other way.Read Full Review »
Waltz With Bashir not only breathes but it howls - and sobs and curses and croons and, in the end, when sound proves useless in the face of calamity, falls into awful silence.Read Full Review »