Metacritic Movie Ratings
Waltz With Bashir Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 100

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention.

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• 100

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKenneth 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.

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• 90

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  A memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film.

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• 88

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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.

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• 80

  out of 100

  Variety

  It's these surreal touches, deployed with tactical restraint, that make the picture extraordinary and convey the febrile atmosphere of warfare, where by fear, horror -- and later guilt -- distort and distend perception and memory.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  This is a powerful, poignant and provocative film, told in an unconventional and effective fashion.

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• 60

  out of 100

  The Hollywood Reporter

  The chosen style of animation leads to a distracting choppiness that renders the movements, gestures and facial expressions of the interviewees unconvincing. The other problem is that, memory naturally being something that returns in fits and starts, the film is rarely able to sustain any consistent narrative thrust.

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