This animated visual treat feels bold and escapist.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Gorgeously animated with superb acting, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON suffers from a messy narrative that can’t decide what it wants to say.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 13, 2024

Raya and the Last Dragon welcomes a reflection on its Asian-fusion design because western adaptations of Asian culture, even with visible and vocal creative Asian input, will come with a spectrum of orientalism…

| Dec 13, 2023

The diversity is great, it's visually pleasing, the score is catchy, and the awesome characters turn this into a really likeable watch with a positive overall message.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 6, 2023

A SPECTACLE, Beautiful, exhilarating, & A fantastic story that brought a tear to my eye! With a great message wrapped around its incredible action & characters, Raya has cemented itself as one of my new favorite DISNEY ANIMATED FILMS

| Jul 26, 2023

Boasting a predominantly Asian-American cast delivering exceptional voice work, Raya and the Last Dragon follows a partially disappointing, formulaic narrative but compensates it with stunning animation, a chill-inducing score, and quite a nice ending.

| Original Score: B | Jul 24, 2023

A mess both in ideals and execution, the film fails to have the charm and poignance it presents and has to be seen as a rare failure for modern Disney animated features.

| May 1, 2023

Not a bad movie, but doesn't take any risks. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 14, 2022

A beautifully heart-swelling put a lump in your throat kind of family film that doesn’t come around too often.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Sep 11, 2022

Raya and the Last Dragon is a visually striking spectacle with equally effective emotional resonance and a lively lead – in short, another win for Walt Disney Animation Studios.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

Disney films are no stranger to heavy stuff, but this film really seemed willing to grapple with some more complicated ideas even if it doesn’t quite have the nerve to see it through to the end.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 17, 2022

“Raya” has a story pulsating with urgency. It uses its fantastical setting, cultural inspirations, and enormous heart to encourage us to keep our faith in humanity, to trust one another, and to come together as a people.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

The animation work is interesting, drawing on shadow puppetry, classical Asian figures and symbols, alongside thoroughly modern animation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2022

The film has a message, but its biggest win is accomplishing old Walt Disney's trademark quote that prevailed in his work: 'For every laugh, there should be a tear...' and a kung fu kick. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 27, 2022

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON creates a pretty adventure world and a nice, colorful group of heroes. Overall, however, the film is a bit too stuck in familiar patterns to really excite more.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Apr 8, 2022

With stunning visuals, energetic and kinetic action sequences and an expansive world rich with lore and details, this was Disney's most exciting film in years.

| Apr 1, 2022

...a distressingly ineffective misfire thats rarely as engaging (or entertaining) as one mightve anticipated.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 22, 2022

Raya and The Last Dragon hums along to a familiar rhythm, but its what it does in between these beats that makes it so entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2022

Raya and the Last Dragon is an epic adventure that brings Disney to a new and exciting direction, all while taking advantage of their strongest assets.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 16, 2022

It's a film with a clunky first half but finds more of a groove later in the second. Raya and the Last Dragon displays a cornucopia of amazing visuals, and the animators have created a lavish fantasy world inspired by Southeast Asian culture and folklore.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 14, 2022