The stop-motion animation about a talking shell sounds twee, but there’s something genuinely charming about its unpredictability.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Beautiful, soothing, and deeply profound, its compelling themes are matched only by its astonishing filmmaking and emotional honesty.

| Jul 17, 2024

It would be easy for a movie like this to be cute to the point of being obnoxious, but there’s a real sincerity to its kindness that I would put on par with the Paddington flicks.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 12, 2024

Marcel makes me want to hope again even in the face of everything that wants to bring me down and that's a feeling I want to chase.

| Jul 3, 2024

A therapeutic, absurdist mockumentary on life.

| Jun 10, 2024

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On has a simple plot but a character that overcomes the fear of loneliness. It’s a universal feeling that will surely resonate with viewers.

| Sep 8, 2023

The way director Dean Fleischer Camp mixes stop-motion animation and live action filmmaking is matched by the storytelling’s fusion -- everything gels delightfully.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 28, 2023

A simple but beautiful film about appreciating the little things in life. + Hilarious along the way! A24 has its first family feature & it’s a HIT!

| Jul 25, 2023

There’s a lot for a one-inch shell to be afraid of. It’s easy to make excuses and turn down opportunities that scare us, and it’s easy to stay in the world that we know, but humanity is at its best when we are brave.

| Jul 24, 2023

The movie captures how instantaneously something can catch fire on the internet, but "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" is deeper than a profile in viral fame.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 16, 2023

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On tugs at all the right heartstrings, creating a perfect life-affirming film that can be enjoyed by all generations of the family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 20, 2023

A heartwarming, hilarious, poignant, and life-affirming story about a mystical shell.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2023

A handcrafted oddity miniature but profound, like its title hero.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2023

The movie triumphs in recuperating a lost innocence and in getting rid of any kind of cynicism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 2, 2023

I wasn’t ready to have my soul squelched by the sweet adventures of an anthropomorphic exoskeleton. Yet this gorgeous animation delivers more than a few profound statements about life, community and family.

| May 1, 2023

It's buoyantly funny, endearing and wonderfully surreal, conjuring plenty of Borrowers-esque magic out of Marcel and Connie's escapades.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 9, 2023

The film sometimes comes close to excessive cutesiness, but quiet wit and visual brilliance more than save it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 2, 2023

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On delivers a funny and extraordinarily profound story that, though populated by weird little one-eyed seashells in sneakers, is as human as anything you’re likely to encounter. A gorgeous, life-affirming film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2023

Bite-sized pearls of wisdom and wonderment from everyone's favourite YouTube crustacean sensation make an elegant shuffle, frequent leaps and occasional tumbles from the internet to the big screen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2023

Marcel The Shell With Shoes on has an earnest quality that will win over viewers of all ages, that makes you feel good without an overabundance of treacle.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 22, 2023