The storyline is semi-snoozy but the visuals are tremendous.

| Jan 7, 2022

A thoroughly engaging and satisfying tribute to the noble history of its genre and its form.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2020

Rintaro directs an intricate anime, which uses the plethora of its main characters to present a number of sociopolitical allegories and metaphors.

| Oct 6, 2019

Essentially, think of this as Fritz Lang for beginners - which is in no way a bad thing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2017

we see the director's towering world of tomorrow being erected on the foundations of yesterday's cultural influence... a dizzying postmodern edifice, more impressive for its shimmering Steampunk architecture than for the dramas accommodated within

| Jan 16, 2017

A spectacular if tonally incongruous reworking of Fritz Lang's 1927 original.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2017

A fairly standard genre exercise, packed with light, detail, color, noise, and motion that add up to relatively little.

Full Review | Jul 19, 2010

Com uma fabulosa direção de arte, uma animação expressiva e temas complexos, o filme representa um estímulo visual, intelectual e emocional intenso, resultando numa experiência fascinante.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 23, 2010

Unfortunately, as this movie is a joy in visuals, it's a let-down plot-wise.

| Apr 29, 2009

Tale of the struggle for personal freedom in a futuristic, tyrannical society is light on action by contempo standards, and pic's look is uninteresting, apart from occasionally bizarre backgrounds.

| Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2008

It smoothly blends outrageously diverse visual styles and emotional tones.

| Apr 17, 2007

One of the most beautiful animated films ever produced.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Otomo's typically sophisticated script ensures slick pacing, combining humour, terror and pathos, particularly in the final scenes.

| Jun 24, 2006

Metropolis se veut une %u0153uvre impressionnante, à la hauteur des noms qui lui sont rattachés.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 26, 2006

The film works best for this sheer spectacle.

| Dec 3, 2003

Doubling up on the imagery makes for an interesting, though ultimately somewhat unfulfilling, experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2003

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 19, 2003

Parts of it are very silly, but it is still extraordinarily powerful as cinema and its meanings grow murkier, not clearer, with what we now know of Lang's life.

| May 23, 2003

One of the most important animated films ever made.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 21, 2003