With Memoir of a Snail, Adam Elliot reminds us why he is one of animation’s unique voices. The film’s absurd humour, melancholy, and beautiful hand-crafted artistry create a humbling human experience.

| Apr 25, 2025

...fully aware of the low blows it contains, [Memoir of a Snail] still manages to sneak in a cheerful smile from time to time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Apr 21, 2025

Funny and always moving, Memoir of a Snail offers more lessons than any animated film intended for children. [Full review in Spanish]

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

...Memoir of a Snail stands out from the most cunning of cinema of cruelty that is so trendy today. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 19, 2025

In its own way, Memoir of a Snail is both a comedy and a tale of overcoming difficulties. But above all, it's a profoundly human experience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 19, 2025

The film's saving grace is not actually its dour protagonist Grace, nor its stellar animation, but the constant stream of caustic satire and adult jokes which are peppered throughout.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 12, 2025

Pitch-black humour occasionally punctures the misery of Elliot’s dark, antipodean fable. The jokes are quite angular. The number plate of the bus that takes Gilbert away reads YRUSAD. For all the gloom, this is a lovely, heartfelt creation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2025

Few films have the power to leave you feeling both empty and hopeful at once. Memoir of a Snail does just that—pulling you through fire, loss, and the fragile beauty of brotherhood.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2025

It's very funny, but it's also extremely poignant and at times, it's heartbreaking.

| Feb 19, 2025

Weird and wonky in the best way, this is a compelling character study that makes its joys, however fleeting, feel truly earned.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2025

Memoir of a Snail proves a wonderful work of animation. Bleak and morbid in abundance, it uses its stellar animated craft to champion humanity and inner strength even in the face of a lifetime of trauma.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2025

The animation won’t win any beauty prizes any time soon, but that is all part of the squalid charm at the core of the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 14, 2025

Memoir of a Snail is Elliot’s most ambitious project yet, with an era-spanning narrative, a flashy cast list (Eric Bana and Nick Cave take tiny cameos) and a furious appetite for macabre diversions.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

Besides more naked folk, there are plenty of other reasons to leave the kids at home; this looks like Nick Cave has crowbarred his way into Aardman studios and cursed the clay with a gothic, decidedly adult, cloak of doom.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 14, 2025

An exceptional film that is worth the heartbreak, Memoir of a Snail is everything that feels good about animated film.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 13, 2025

…a worthy follow-up to Mary and Max, Adam Elliot’s debut, and has a similar balance of light and shade. There is a very dark streak of comedy here, and the animated style charms the eye even as Grace’s sad story engages your sympathies…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2025

This is an animated film in every sense, but it plays more to the symbolism...in the deformity of its characters, not because it wants to make them unusual, but because through that deformity it makes them familiar to us. [Full review in Spanish]

| Feb 13, 2025

Elliot and his team deserve praise for making a stop-motion film that doesn’t lean on the usual array of snap-talking critters and easy-on-the-eye visual wonderment, and Memoir of a Snail is certainly a true original in its tone and execution.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 11, 2025

Memoir of a Snail is not just a stop-motion animation that feels handmade from top to bottom. It tells a deeply human story about a hard-won route to happiness -- with all the pain and missteps that go with it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2025

Thankfully, it's every bit as good as its highly praised predecessor, bursting with wit, invention, charm, poignancy and moments of exquisite vulgarity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 11, 2025