Metacritic Movie Ratings
Paprika Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 91

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  Fantasy leaks into reality.

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• 90

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesJohn Anderson

  Kon's best work yet.

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• 90

  out of 100

  The New York TimesManohla Dargis

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

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• 80

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  Satoshi Kon, whose previous film was the remarkable "Tokyo Godfathers," uses the complex plot as a pretext for joyous psychedelia.

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• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington

  We've gotten perhaps too used to the computerized wizardry of our own cartoon features; Kon, like Miyazaki shows us some older ways that can still transfix us.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Variety

  With its brainy scientist heroine, and surreal, super-kitsch imagery, above-average Japanese anime sci-fi pic Paprika has a better chance than most Nipponese toons of breaking out of the specialty ghetto by appealing to femme auds as well as the genre's core constituency of fanboys.

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• 70

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterRichard James Havis

  It is an intelligently written piece that only falters during the finale.

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