This may indeed be a visually forward-thinking work, but I simply can’t tell, so I’ll steal the movie’s own dialogue for a summation: “It’s a mixed to negative review, but they say it’s ‘dazzling?'”

| Jan 12, 2023

It's not like anything that passes as animation these days, and that's perfect. High time some fresh air blew open those doors.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 21, 2021

I feel that John Hughes would approve.

| May 6, 2020

[W]hile it moves very fast and is frequently quite funny, it ultimately feels pointless. Still, it's the kind of film that begs to be seen on the big screen, granted you're into this sort of thing.

| Mar 26, 2020

My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is uniquely excellent because it relies heavily on a resource that few other animated features have: a powerful visual grammar that has been finely honed in the trenches of comics storytelling.

| Feb 6, 2020

Shaw's mixture of variously textured animations helps create a rather psychedelic palette, jarring wonderfully with a manic score from Rani Sharone.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 9, 2019

Succeeds through Shaw's unique visual style, but it rises to another level thanks to the impeccable vocal casting.

| Original Score: 3.25/5 | Jul 20, 2019

A funny, sad, strange, and altogether wonderful film that will speak to anyone who ever felt lost on the stormy and at times disorienting seas of adolescence.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

Deadpan to a fault, with monotone line readings that feel unnaturally disconnected, a tone that lacks command and a story that feels feckless and bored.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 29, 2019

It's a labor of love that is quickly paced and full of inventive animation and jokes.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2019

A gonzo, spirited adolescent disaster movie that artistic types are guaranteed to love.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 20, 2018

Mythologizing one's adolescence has rarely been driven home with such imaginative force.

| Dec 14, 2018

Its lava-lamp visuals are consistently intoxicating, blurring the boundaries between physical spaces in ways that feel fitting to the scenario.

| Aug 21, 2018

My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea is good for so many reasons, namely the unique video art and talented cast are the obvious ones, but what really resonated with me was the number of poignant moments happening at the most unexpected times.

| Aug 6, 2018

Aiming to be a synthesis of Wes Anderson and Richard Linklater, My Entire High School suffers from all of the issues that Anderson largely avoids.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jan 26, 2018

One of the most unusual animated features to come out in the United States in a long time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2017

This is a cartoon that knows it's a cartoon.

| Oct 16, 2017

One of the more visually stunning comedies in recent memory.

| Sep 15, 2017

Lots of the same shots are repeated over and over again, throughout the movie, as if the filmmakers were desperately trying to stretch things out to feature length.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 11, 2017

Simultaneously satirising the predictability of disaster movies and the vacuity of teenage social cliques, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea is an odd amalgamation of contrasting tropes, but an engaging collage of experimental filmmaking.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 12, 2017