Forgotten

  • 2018


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96 % Fresh
$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 23
Negative reviews 5
Average Rating 3.5/5
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3.8
The risk is in the telling: Spiegelman cast it as a version of a funny animal cartoon. Rogerebert
4.0
But once youre settled in, this surprising effort offers great rewards. Common Sense Media
2.0
This is a beautiful film, and an ugly one, and the tension between those two sides doesnt abate until the very last scene. Indie Wire
3.5
Packing a slim running time with ideas and incident, Vazquez and Riveros film does a remarkable job juggling seemingly discordant elements within an a .. Variety
3.0
Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children is bizarre, imaginative and beautiful, but its also crying out for a stronger narrative. We Got This Covered
3.8
But if you allow yourself to get on its wavelength, Birdboy offers a feast of hallucinatory visual delights and astonishingly visceral horrors.
3.5
And though its dark riches can at moments feel like overload, and its narrative thrust occasionally grows diffuse, the story casts an undeniable spell .. The Hollywood Reporter
3.5
Yet, for all that brutality, and the continual sense that these children face overwhelming odds from a cruel world, there is a heartfelt sense of hope ..
5.0
The simple precision of the hand drawn characters and of the watercolor world they inhabit provide visual coherence and establish an atmosphere of fas .. The New York Times
3.0
Still, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children is its own unique, damaged creature. Village Voice
4.0
The drawing style bears no resemblance to Japanese anime, yet the narrative tone is remarkably similar, with cute and sinister elements held in suspen .. Chicago Reader
3.5
In his sad story, theres more than a hint of Burtons style at its most macabre. Film Journal
4.5
If anything, its technique is even more daring than that faux single take Best Picture winner. Npr
4.0
Dry wit intersects with whimsy and fantastically creative storytelling, making it easily the most distinctive animated feature of the past year. Eye For Film
2.0
However, whether you enjoy it or not, youll have trouble forgetting this distinct picture. The Play List
2.5
But its hard to picture North American screens aiming this grotesquely dystopian tale at children, even if it is about the wee ones of the title. Straight
3.0
But writer and co director Alberto Vazquez effectively relies on range of imagination and intensity of feeling to keep the eyeball staring and the hea .. Sandiego Reader
3.5
Carrie, our casual movie goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy end .. Alternate Ending
4.5
The story doesnt get much lighter from there, despite a smattering of strikingly colorful sequences, and painterly, muted backgrounds throughout what .. Film Journal International ..
2.0
Whats so striking about this are the ways in which the filmmakers contextualize societal breakdowns, drug addiction, adolescence, pollution, abuse, gr .. Fresh Fiction
3.5
Birdboy is a movie whose relatively short 76 minute runtime in no way detracts from its intensity. Its also a reminder that animation can convey trage .. Cultured Vultures
3.1
But its occasionally disorienting story doesnt do its thematic content any favors. From the Front Row
4.5
A precise and rigorous transposition of instabilities, desolations and real anxieties to the plane of fables carried out by adorable talking animals.
3.0
Forceful images are scattered throughout the meditative miserablism of Birdboy, but the film is uneven and chilly to the touch. Dare Daniel
1.5
Thats more a warning about its content than its quality, for those of you lulled by a fanciful sounding title promising talking animals.As an artistic .. Beta La Times
4.5
With Birdboy, the techniques and tools of cinema allow Vzquez to realize the strongest possible version of a story adapted many times. Hyperallergic
1.5
A film where the characters move as the stroke of Alberto Vzquez requires and visual language is imposed as a firm stylistic identity. El Pais (Spain)
4.5
An animated film completely different from what the genre has accustomed us to: kindness, color, music and humor. El Mundo (Spain)
4.5
I guarantee you it will be a film experience unlike any youve had before and that has to count for something. Rotoscopers



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