Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
93
(39 sources)
93
(39 sources)
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Village Voice
A film that's both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate. Read Full Review » -
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The Hollywood Reporter
The visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Tribune
While I may argue with the little guy's taste in musicals, it's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other. Read Full Review » -
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Washington Post
The idea that a company in the business of mainstream entertainment would make something as creative, substantial and cautionary as WALL-E has to raise your hopes for humanity. Read Full Review » -
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy. Read Full Review » -
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Entertainment Weekly
It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own. Read Full Review » -
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Wall Street Journal
The first half hour of WALL-E is essentially wordless, and left me speechless. This magnificent animated feature from Pixar starts on such a high plane of aspiration, and achievement, that you wonder whether the wonder can be sustained. But yes, it can. Read Full Review » -
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TV Guide
It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages. Read Full Review » -
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Mixing Chaplinesque delicacy with the architectural grandeur of a Stanley Kubrick film, director Andrew Stanton recycles film history and makes something fresh and accessible from it without pandering to a young audience. Read Full Review » -
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Los Angeles Times
Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films. Read Full Review » -
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Newsweek
Once again, the Pixar wizards have pushed the animation envelope in unexpected directions and come up with a winner. Wondrously inventive, funny and poignant, WALL*E is part sci-fi adventure, part cautionary fable, part satire and part love story, which may be the best and most improbable part of all. Read Full Review » -
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Rolling Stone
You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic. Read Full Review » -
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New York Magazine
The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world. Read Full Review » -
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Empire
To call WALLoE Pixar's best film would potentially denigrate films that deserve no scorn. But this is their most ambitious undertaking since "Toy Story" and storytelling of such charm and visual wit that it can stand proudly alongside the studio's best. Absolute heaven. Read Full Review » -
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Christian Science Monitor
The story line for WALL-E is probably too convoluted for small kids, and sometimes it suffers from techie overload, but it's more heartfelt than anything on the screens these days featuring humans. Read Full Review » -
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling. Read Full Review » -
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NPR
The first hour of Wall-E is a crazily inventive, deliriously engaging and almost wordless silent comedy of the sort that Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used to make. Read Full Review » -
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The New Yorker
Apparently, the movie has caused annoyance in some quarters because it criticizes the American way of life. This it does, and with suavity and supreme good humor. WALL-E is a classic, but it will never appeal to people who are happy with art only when it has as little bite as possible. Read Full Review » -
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The New York Times
The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in. Read Full Review » -
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Austin Chronicle
This is Pixar's finest and most emotionally powerful film yet, and it draws on a wealth of cinematic resources that run the gamut from Chaplin's best to Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and even Martin and Lewis. Read Full Review » -
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Charlotte Observer
A potent environmental message wrapped up in an irresistibly cute romance between robots. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Sun-Times
Succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story. Read Full Review » -
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Portland Oregonian
It's a justifiably G-rated film, but parents may have some 'splainin' to do. Read Full Review » -
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New York Daily News
Rotates around a rusty little robotic hero who's built, as the movie is, with such emotion, brains and humor that whole universes exist in his whirring tones and binocular eyes. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Reader
The movie's first half is largely free of dialogue, playing like silent comedy, while the second act offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos. Read Full Review » -
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Variety
Walks a fine line between the rarefied and the immediately accessible as it explores new territory for animation, yet remains sufficiently crowd-pleasing. Read Full Review » -
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Philadelphia Inquirer
With rich, detailed, cinematic animation and terrific sound effects, WALLE pulls this unlikely love story off. Read Full Review » -
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Premiere
When it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool. Read Full Review » -
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San Francisco Chronicle
In the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring. Read Full Review » -
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Salon.com
The picture feels weirdly, and disappointingly, disjointed, something that starts out as poetry and ends as product. Read Full Review »
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