It is both horrifying and, ultimately, hopeful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 19, 2024

The loss of his cultural roots, the discrimination and danger he faced on his journey west, the strange new culture and language he has to assimilate – all are part of the refugee experience vividly brought to screen...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2022

Flee is a remarkable achievement. It takes a difficult topic and makes it very engaging.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 23, 2022

This is a triumph-of-the-human-spirit story as dramatic as the most finely wrought melodrama, with flashes of vintage newsreels reminding us that it is all “real”.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2022

The sense of catharsis and the heartfelt voiceover, however, offset the roughhewn aesthetics.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2022

All but the hardest of hearts will shatter. It’s a film that ends in tears of joy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2022

Flee tells a remarkable story of displacement and survival that justifies its eclectic, genre-blending approach.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2022

This is a film which simply wouldn’t have worked in any medium but animation: in an hour and a half we come to know Amin intimately without actually setting eyes on him at all.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 10, 2022

An extraordinary blend of personal reflection and inspired craft, Flee is a harrowing child’s-eye adventure that lends lyricism to the plight of migrants while showing there’s always a new way to make a documentary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 9, 2022

Much to say about politics, sexuality, family, hope. This should be taught in schools.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 8, 2022

What an extraordinary story.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 8, 2022

A heartbreaking, nerve-wracking, ultimately uplifting story of one man’s odyssey to freedom.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 5, 2022

A triumph, not only of the filmed variety but a human one, as well.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 27, 2022

In sharing his story with the world, Amin and Rasmussen have given us a truly generous gift.

| Jan 27, 2022

"What does the word 'home' mean to you?" the director asks Amin early on. He struggles for an answer. Those watching "Flee" may well do so, too.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 20, 2022

"Flee" morphs from a tale of dispossession to a testament to the power of narrative - to overtake a life, and to liberate it.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 20, 2022

The animation here is used for such expressionistic beauty.

| Dec 7, 2021

An intimate portrait of the lasting traumas of displacement and one of the most humane films of the year.

| Dec 4, 2021

Evocatively animated in a style that is visually sparse but emotionally vibrant, with a strong sense of motion and interiority.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 3, 2021

The year's most inventive animated adventure mixes graphic design with documentary realism and puts hallucinatory brilliance at the service of understanding the continuing psychic damage of war. You'll never forget it.

| Dec 3, 2021