Boy and the World ventures into an animated abyss and what I pleasantly found, is a joyous journey worthy of experiencing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 31, 2021

It wears its politics on its sleeve, and that's probably where they belong.

| Jul 2, 2019

The Boy and the World is melancholic with a no-frills story but its exuberant execution leaves a long lasting mark on its audience.

| Feb 15, 2019

Directed and animated by Alê Abreu, his vision created a beautiful and energetic film full of great visuals and music.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 11, 2019

This wordless animated gem has finally made it to our shores, four years after its release internationally, and boy has it been worth the wait.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 3, 2019

This colourful joyride is one that we insist you make and see the world through the eyes of a little boy.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 3, 2019

It's filled with striking moments, but the general effect is more suitable to a midnight audience than a children's matinee.

| Sep 30, 2017

The animation is lovely -- clean, pure and filled with aching, gorgeous colour.

| Aug 16, 2017

In this film, Abreu takes many risks that pay off in terms of an aesthetic shift in styles and a masterful use of music, sounds and silences that are at once relevant and in harmony with the visual storytelling.

| Jun 20, 2017

Considering the film's conspicuous music and fluid, colorful, dizzying tapestry, it seems that Abreu is more concerned with evoking emotions than presenting a clear arc. Until, that is, the very end, when he wields his sledgehammer.

| Jan 13, 2017

...the Brazilian film Boy & the World by the director Alê Abreu... reminds you of what can be accomplished in this medium.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 24, 2016

The Brazilian fable Boy and the World, one of this year's Oscar nominees in the Animated Feature category, is a stirring blend of gorgeous animation and a simple, heartfelt story.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 18, 2016

A dazzler, with enough far-out 'head trip' moments to have qualified it for cult status during the era of the midnight-movie illegal smile.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2016

Abreu's visionary movie is a restless and dynamic creature that is forever reconstituting itself into complex visual and musical landscapes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2016

Although the film is a bit abstract and largely free of dialogue (what little speaking there is is a whispered babble of tongues), it has a universal simplicity-we're seeing life through the wide, innocent eyes of a naif.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 25, 2016

Kaleidoscopic in its opening up of brilliant color and of the troubling interaction between corporate "people" and flesh-and-bone people, between the environment and civilization.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2016

Boy and the World is the animated Playtime that you never knew you wanted.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 20, 2016

Abreu has created a sensational piece of work that stands out because of how simple yet moving it is. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 19, 2016

Even those who find fault with its core message will have to admit that 'Boy and the World' is a visually dazzling experience, although it might appeal more to adult connoisseurs of animation technique than to kids.

| Original Score: B | Feb 12, 2016

Abreu handcrafted his images, and the imagination from which those images spring is astonishingly fertile.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 11, 2016