Fantastic Mr. Fox Critic Reviews

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Slate | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

You don't want to watch this movie, you want to climb inside it and play.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

With its virtuoso tomfoolery, Fantastic Mr. Fox is like a homegrown Wallace and Gromit caper. To Wes Anderson: More, please!Read the full review

The New York Times | A.O. ScottAdd Critic to Favorites

In some ways his (Anderson) most fully realized and satisfying film. Once you adjust to its stop-and-start rhythms and its scruffy looks, you can appreciate its wit, its beauty and the sly gravity of its emotional undercurrents.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri LindenAdd Critic to Favorites

Anderson has created a world as stylized and inventive as anything he's done... "Fox" is a visual delight.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

A pleasantly cerebral experience, exhilarating and fizzy, that goes to your head like too much Champagne.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

A captivating entertainment for the holiday season and well beyond.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

By forgoing actual human beings, the director has made his most charming, least annoyingly fey film - a thing of lovely comic wisdom.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

These animals aren't catering to anyone in the audience. We get the feeling they're intensely leading their own lives without slowing down for ours.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

An adventure in pure imagination that plays to the smart kid in all of us.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

The film's style, paradoxically both precious and rough-hewn, positions this as the season's defiantly anti-CGI toon, and its retro charms will likely appeal more strongly to grown-ups than to moppets; it's a picture for people who would rather drive a 1953 Jaguar XK 120 than a new one.Read the full review

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