Every bit deserving of its instant classic standing.

| Apr 12, 2025

The Iron Giant more than holds up over a quarter-century after its release.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 24, 2024

Brad Bird’s cartoon fable in science fiction clothing and fairy tale trappings is a delightful throwback to the classic era of hand-drawn animated movies and delivers the most amazing little boy wish fulfillment fantasies.

| Aug 19, 2023

The characters are far more complex than most animated fare.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 19, 2022

Fuses Cold War paranoia with a science-fiction/horror B-movie template to create an entertaining, action-filled, and clearly disclosed parable.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 14, 2020

...an incredible achievement in both narrative and animation.

| Jun 3, 2020

I found The Iron Giant to be a completely engaging movie experience. I laughed. And, yes, I cried, too. Moreover, I felt like I'd really gotten my money's worth when I left the theater after watching it.

| Feb 26, 2020

The Iron Giant should have been immediately recognized as a near-perfect, classical expression of imagination, combining childlike wonder and adult sophistication.

| May 14, 2019

Robot Lessons Learned: - How many movies are just Short Circuit? - We understand why Hogarth doesn't have friends. - Vin Diesel's voice acting niche....

| Apr 17, 2019

This is, full stop, one of the best animated movies of all time; an enduring classic.

| Mar 26, 2019

It is beautiful and moving and the animation is gorgeous.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Feb 21, 2019

The Iron Giant captures and crystallizes its source material's anxious, humane spirit. It might be the most empathetic and exhilarating mainstream American animated feature ever made.

| Jun 18, 2018

It doesn't try to hide its own cleverness, it's funny and pulls in references from all over the place, from Bambi to Frankenstein.

| Aug 24, 2017

Tender, moving and exciting for kids (and their secretly tearful parents).

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2016

Watching this again 17 years after its original release, I savoured again the resemblances to Spielberg, Wilde and Brian Forbes's Whistle Down the Wind.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2016

In every way, one of the highlights of both animation and family-friendly cinema in the last quarter-century.

| Original Score: 10/10 | May 4, 2015

While youngsters will enjoy the film on one level, it reaches out to adults on a completely different plane. They will see an allegory about power and politics and the danger of allowing either to run roughshod over humanity.

| Aug 12, 2014

This is not exactly standard children's fare, but kids (and their parents) should be smitten by its wit and wisdom.

| Aug 12, 2014

This is sharp, sophisticated stuff, appreciated on different levels by both parents and children, and even those who are neither. The film has impish humor, great adventure and more than a few thrills.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 12, 2014

Wisely, Bird and company eschew the standard Disney formula of catchy show tunes and cuddly animal sidekicks and lead Warner Bros. toward an animation style the studio can call its own.

| Aug 12, 2014