A visual breath of fresh air and delightful respite from reality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2025

a marvel of technical ingenuity, formal beauty, and deep reverence for life

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 1, 2025

It's an amazing accomplishment that rivals the animals' journey every step of the way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 28, 2025

What surely won over Oscar voters, though, is the dreamy animation, with colourful fishes, majestic buildings and a sky filled with stars.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2025

It can be playful; it can be deceptively profound.

| Mar 27, 2025

It’s hard to remember the last time that Disney, DreamWorks or Pixar got anywhere near Flow’s sense of wonder or imagination.

| Mar 27, 2025

Eschewing dialogue and any hint of anthropomorphism, the film鈥檚 painterly, DIY approach is thoroughly enchanting, liable to hold audiences rapt if they鈥檙e six or 60.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2025

Animation purists, and their pets, will love it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2025

The world of Flow, like those of the best movies, is hallucinatory and its mood hypnotic, the rolling, seductive frames adding to the illusion of some powerful subconscious truth.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 25, 2025

Flow shows both formidable technical brilliance and ingenuity, not least because it dispenses with dialogue 鈥� quizzical mews, chirrups and rhythmic doggy breaths replacing words.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2025

Flow is not exactly mining new thematic territory... However, the approach of Flow, with its animals鈥�-eye, in-the-moment immediacy and its resistance to cutesiness and anthropomorphism, is bracingly fresh and unexpected.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2025

Beautifully done.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2025

Emotional without succumbing fully to darkness, Flow is a masterful example of what animation can do when viewed from a different perspective. Following an award season fraught with debate, there’s no denying this gorgeous film its victory.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 24, 2025

Flow is one of the most visually arresting films I have seen. As with the very best cinema though, its images continue to enhance its themes.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 22, 2025

With a minimalist approach, director Gints Zilbalodis takes the viewer on a deep emotional journey, where the purity of the animation and the design of the settings communicate more than any word. [Full review in Spanish]

| Mar 22, 2025

It鈥檚 proof there鈥檚 not only one direction to take, and that Hollywood鈥檚 fixation on photorealism and A-list voice actors isn鈥檛 absolute.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2025

Flow oozes with charm and playfulness, a delightful multi-generational film that captures a quiet grace missing from so many modern animated features obsessed with manic edits, flashing colours and cacophonous sound design.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2025

It鈥檚 a film full of wonders but not a single word of dialogue in the epic tale of one cat鈥檚 adventures after a flood of biblical proportions. As visions of apocalypse go, it鈥檚 rather lovely

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2025

This beautifully illustrated and scripted affair is all class from start to finish.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2025

Watching these animals, many of whom are natural enemies, team up and save each others' lives is funny, cleverly detailed and often thrilling.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 20, 2025