The USP of Wes Anderson’s films is to turn even the most tried-and-tested indie narrative tropes into a borderline-absurdist adventure. “Isle of Dogs” feels right at home with the rest of his work.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

Although this story may seem innocent, it hides a clear metaphor about the oppression of minorities by dictatorial orders, and the segregation, since a clear parallel can be drawn between the "Garbage Island" ” and a concentration camp or a slum.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 28, 2023

Isle of Dogs once again illustrated Wes Anderson’s versatility as a director and was a bold move away from the trappings of The Grand Budapest Hotel which had earned such acclaim.

| Aug 8, 2023

While Isle of Dogs could never clear the impossibly high bar of Fantastic Mr. Fox, it’s still a wonderfully creative and perfectly bittersweet tale about people and their relationship to the canine world.

| Jun 28, 2023

The huge and talented cast offer up superb voice work, and they all meld seamlessly into Anderson’s handsomely idiosyncratic world.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It's perhaps too easy for the viewer to become lost in Anderson's creativity, as opposed to becoming lost in the emotional power of the storytelling, and so Isle of Dogs feels less engaging than his previous output.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2022

Isle of Dogs is a perfect film for dog lovers, or maybe just animal lovers in general. It expresses the special bond and friendship between humans and their pets. Wes Anderson realizes these ideas with an amazing, unique flare.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 23, 2022

Anderson tried to make space for culture but the argument still holds that the film certainly comes from a Western perspective; its complex communication study, while creative, is not designed to be absorbed by those that speak both English and Japanese.

| Feb 21, 2022

Meticulously crafted, well-acted and often hilarious.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 21, 2021

[A] blend of innocence and weltschmerz.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2021

There's something special about kids and their dogs.

| Jul 20, 2021

A feat of animation worthy of your marvel.

| Apr 28, 2021

So effortlessly cinematic and inventive, it's best in show.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Anderson's film is officially promoted as a comedy, and it has some very amusing elements, but Isle of Dogs is a darker film than one suspects the writer-director intended it to be or perhaps even now realizes that it is.

| Feb 11, 2021

A stop-motion animated fantasy about a boy in search of his exiled dog, and the dogs (and people) who help along the way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 28, 2021

Just as the look of the film is breathtaking, the scripting is astounding.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 7, 2020

Isle of Dogs will make the common adult feel like a kid inside, but make them laugh out loud and keep their brain wired to the modern dilemma at the same time.

| Nov 10, 2020

For all its intentionally bizarre elements, an underlying affection remains for our four-legged friends with the dialogue: "Whatever happened to man's best friend?"

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2020

Isle of Dogs emphasizes the inscrutability and Otherness of its Japanese characters.

| Original Score: C | Aug 1, 2020

One can't deny that the film is meticulous on a microscopic scale, but that doesn't mean that its charm will be lost when it all ends up as gif sets on Tumblr.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 24, 2020