The central irony of Finding Dory is that Dory is a risk-taker trapped in a movie that, for all its likability, won't join her on whimsical leaps.

| Aug 10, 2017

Who would have thought one of the deepest films ever made about learning disabilities would star a talking blue fish?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 3, 2017

Much like its titular character, it keeps swimming, and in doing so teaches all of us life lessons that we likely already knew yet still could use to revisit all the same.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2016

Before a somewhat cluttered conclusion, Finding Dory is a truly touching film, graceful in its exploration of identity, family, and the way they intersect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2016

Finding Dory is inferior to Finding Nemo (and both Toy Story sequels). Those films are tesseracts, this one's a cube. That said, to label it average somehow misses the point.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2016

It is approached with such charm and warmth that it hardly matters that the two films share such similar arcs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2016

There are commendable lessons here about being resilient and resourceful and kind, but you'll have fun learning them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2016

There are large dollops of sentimentality and we all know just how the story is going to end, but there's an enjoyably anarchic undertow to proceedings, not least when the fish commandeer a lorry and race the wrong way up a freeway.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2016

When there are lulls in the action, these are filled too often by homilies and life lessons that demand no spelling out.

| Jul 28, 2016

It's watchable, with all the wonderful animation technique that we are in danger of taking for granted. But it's basically a footnote or retread of the movie which melted everyone's heart 12 years ago.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2016

There are few dud jokes, if any, in a script directed with vaudevillian verve by Andrew Stanton, the human pilot fish behind Nemo and Wall-E who also wrote Toy Stories one to three and Monsters, Inc.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 28, 2016

Being a Pixar film it is, of course, eye-poppingly rich with color and detail. (The glowy underwater light of the film is particularly breathtaking).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2016

['septopus' Hank's] flexibility and timidity, coupled with Dory's vulnerability and derring-do, make for a complex dialectic on the different ways in which the disabled can interact with the world beyond

| Jul 1, 2016

While not as visually dazzling as its predecessor, the film is still colorful and immersive; the script, while predictable, puts an engaging spin on the issues of home and identity.

| Jun 27, 2016

It's gorgeous. It's lively. It's got terrific performances from a strong voice cast. It's emotionally affecting without being heavy-handed.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2016

Dory's visual palette is such a joy to look at, drawing on the deep blues and greens of the underwater expanse and ocean-dwelling algae.

| Jun 23, 2016

Finding Dory succeeds in transporting us to a wonderful underwater world while enhancing the franchise's emotional core.

| Jun 22, 2016

For kids and adults, there's a lovely parable about persistence, optimism and embracing difference. Something we could all use a little more of.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 20, 2016

Dory's adventures are amiable enough, but the film lacks energy and suffers from a sense of predictability.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2016

'Finding Dory' in the wake its predecessor, the now-legendary 'Nemo,' was no small task... delightfully pleasing on every level...

| Jun 17, 2016