A tender and exquisite animation about one man and his dog which gets as close to what it is to love dogs as I've ever encountered.

| Aug 30, 2018

Affably voiced by Christopher Plummer, Ackerley is at once enormously affectionate and beadily observan, while the clever graphic style marks the switch between straightforward narration and surreal doggy reverie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2011

In truth, it's boring.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2011

Smacks first of obfuscation, then of desperation.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 5, 2011

Rarely has a needy bond between human and pet felt more unsentimentally and perfectly observed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2011

Quirky and bittersweet, a treat for dog lovers and the dogless alike.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2011

Is My Dog Tulip the best film ever about a dog? Is it Citizen Canine? My answer, yes.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2011

Manages to say more about man's relationship with dogs in a single, lush frame than 'Marley and Me' would if it were to run on a loop until the end of time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2011

A delightful animation for adults, its lack of sentiment makes it an anti-Marley.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 3, 2011

A classic book, a film to cherish.

| May 1, 2011

It's an oddity, this film: a wry, wobbly cartoon made expressly for grown-ups, featuring quirky hand-drawn animation and very little dialogue outside the central voiceover.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 10, 2011

The scratchy animation, reminiscent of Jules Feiffer's beatnik-era doodles, is a homey complement to Plummer's autumnal narration.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 4, 2011

A marvelous animated feature, full of quiet joy, honest sorrow, wisdom and a wealth of clinical detail both excremental and reproductive, all rendered in a charming style approximating the dog drawings of James Thurber.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 7, 2011

It is told from and by an adult sensibility that understands loneliness, gratitude and the intense curiosity we feel for other lives, man and beast.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 6, 2011

It's hard not to feel a certain affection for a tale that is so unapologetic about just that: affection.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 5, 2010

Paul and Sandra Fierlinger's My Dog Tulip is a double rarity: An adaptation that wholly and faithfully captures the spirit and mood of the book it's based on, and an example of computer animation that shows the human touch in every frame.

| Oct 22, 2010

Words of wisdom keep popping up in My Dog Tulip with gratifying regularity. They're more likely to gratify dog lovers than anyone else, but that's a large group to which I belong...

| Oct 21, 2010

My Dog Tulip is as disconcerting and unusual a piece of animation as the 1956 memoir that inspired it, and that is saying a lot.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 21, 2010

For the most part, the images undulate. They often appear to be melting. That, or they're streaked or smeared and wholly unruly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2010

Like the best of Disney's animated films down through the years, the Fierlingers' cartoon celebrates its medium and transcends it. There's great storytelling here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 30, 2010