WALL-E Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

The best American film of the year to date.Read the full review

USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites

At once futuristic, funny and fantastical.Read the full review

Washington Post | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

The idea that a company in the business of mainstream entertainment would make something as creative, substantial and cautionary as WALL-E has to raise your hopes for humanity.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

The visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha RobinsonAdd Critic to Favorites

It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

The first half hour of WALL-E is essentially wordless, and left me speechless. This magnificent animated feature from Pixar starts on such a high plane of aspiration, and achievement, that you wonder whether the wonder can be sustained. But yes, it can.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own.Read the full review

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

The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in.Read the full review

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