Films as brilliant as ‘Mary And Max’ don’t come along very often. If I had to grade it out of ten I would give it one hundred.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 29, 2024

The ugly duckling characters share thoughts of anxiety, addiction, depression, and feelings of severe displacement within the world. This is dark and very heavy, but very Harold and Maude stuff.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 30, 2023

A beautiful story of friendship, forgiveness, love, and humanity although the differences. A humanistic story. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 6, 2021

A film of astonishing beauty, Mary and Max is undoubtedly one of the films of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 6, 2018

Those adults brave enough to confront the perils of animation will be treated to a wise, visually unique, emotional gem of a film that will leave you wondering how two clay figures damn near broke your heart.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 11, 2016

The universe that is inhabited by Mary and Max is breathtaking, and must have required years of painstaking attention to detail to forge.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 21, 2014

"Mary and Max" dares to be equally funny and sad, making it as bittersweet as Max's favorite chocolate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2014

This clay animation feels as if it was written by the early Woody Allen. Actually the genius behind it is Adam Elliot, who wrote, designed and directed this eccentric, wryly funny story.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 16, 2014

A deliciously sentimental film whose offbeat sensibility manages to keep it out of the realm of schmaltz.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 30, 2014

Unapologetically bleak and delivered with dashes of sweetness and sharp wit, Mary and Max deserves notice for being such an unexpected change of pace.

| Original Score: A- | May 30, 2014

Ultimately, Mary and Max is about correspondence and lack of correspondence, about how our images and fantasies about others fail to match up to what they are like, and about the constitutive gaps and misfirings in any communicational practice.

| Jun 18, 2012

Everyone and everything is bursting with a hyper-real life that is pitched perfectly to the tragi-comic tone of the story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 1, 2011

Animated indie explores unusual friendship, heavy themes.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2010

Funny, poignant and moving, this quirky and clever film oozes heart and insights into human nature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2010

The themes are nicely complemented by Elliot's animation style, which is full of wonky cityscapes and misshapen characters, something that gives this oddball story a lovely, tactile, handcrafted feel.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2010

Has charm, curiosity and heart in spades.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 27, 2010

An unorthodox but unforgettable valentine to a friendship that blossoms between two lonely people.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 25, 2010

While occasionally over-sentimental, this is a wonderfully unique film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010

It's a 20-year story that absorbs and beguiles, despite the ugly subject matter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010

Elliot is a talent eccentric enough to make Nick Park look like an office drone, and the serious sadness underpinning his vision only makes the humour work better.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 22, 2010