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(1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh Page   1   4.5/5 "In this animated 'leisure trip' back through an atrocity, the nightmarish hell of war assumes a new kind of reality. Devastatingly good."   Channel 4 Film   Anton Bitel 4/5 "Waltz with Bashir (is) the best of all possible documentaries - wildly entertaining, keenly informative, and wholly unforgettable."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron 5/5 "a frothing pop nightmare"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin A- "Visually inventive and viscerally sincere, "Waltz With Bashir" is a cathartic and unforgettable film."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 10/10 "As Waltz with Bashir makes visible its distrust of imperfect history and daunting memory, it insists on their necessity."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs B+ "A thoughtful and original piece, revisiting the traumatic effects of the war in Lebanon in 1982."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "An arresting concept, yet the resulting film is skimpy, numbing, and less searching than it believes it is"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce A- "A hypnotic dance with death that delivers an emotional wallop and a potent anti-war message."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A chilling Israeli animated documentary revolving around the 1982 massacre of 3000 unarmed Palestinian refugees in Lebanon."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 3.5/4 "it feels like a fever dream, but moves forward with the churning internal logic and dogged persistence of a mystery-thriller"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 8/10 "Par le biais d'une approche filmique unique et novatrice, Ari Folman dresse un portrait sensible, effrayant et révoltant de la guerre."   Panorama   Jean-François Vandeuren 9/10 "Animation turns out to be the perfect medium to show this ... It's an outstanding marriage of form and content."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Jeffrey Chen 46/100 "The camera’s ability to privilege the perspective of its wielder has rarely been abused as blatantly as it is in this film. This is a singularly self-serving work."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "The flatness and stiff, jerky movement of the drawing contribute to the dreamlike, increasing dread-filled atmosphere of the visuals, which burst finally into actual filmed images of devastating impact."   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards 5/5 "Folman's personal journey to recover/understand his own memories in the context of a great national nightmare is a unique, arresting documentary that will stick with you for a good long while. I was so glad I was able to see it."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery B+ "...a poetic version of primal scream therapy crossed with penance..."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3/4 "Art and artifice are sometimes a necessary buffer between reality and our minds"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes "More illustrated than animated, more Maus than Mouse..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "The vivid, living graphic novel imagery powerfully illustrates the story."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 2/4 "The animation serves as a distancing device akin to the way that Folman's mind used concealment to shield him from horrific traumas, a canny marriage of thematic and aesthetic concerns that nonetheless can't cover up the unsubtle redundancy of his story."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 5/5 "O último segundo de filme justifica, por si só, a necessidade inconsciente do cineasta em reprimir suas próprias lembranças."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4.5/5 "Quite possibly the first-ever feature animated documentary, this strong story of war and memory from Israel is essential viewing for anyone interested in film. Or in the Middle East."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 5/5 "An inconvenient memory"   JWR   S. James Wegg A "... you could call it an animated documentary by way of oral history, but it's best not to get caught up with labels concerning this film."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker A "... you could call it an animated documentary by way of oral history, but it's best not to get caught up with labels concerning this film."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 8/10 "Deceptively simple and poetic, yet surreal and complex, it's a portrait of a man in conflict with himself."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 8/10 "By turns irritating, confounding, and endlessly fascinating."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton Read review   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf  (1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 88% Fresh Page   1