Manages to break through its sometimes mechanical construction.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jan 28, 2025

Robot Dreams certainly is a gem hidden among all the bigger animation studios... but its one that stands on for its style, story and unconventional approach to those more complex situations we can find ourselves in.

| Dec 9, 2024

Robot Dreams nimbly navigates within the slice of the Venn diagram where sad and funny intersect, and does so exquisitely.

| Dec 5, 2024

Dog speaks directly to the soul of melancholia. It occurred to me that this film is the perfect analogue to Spike Jonze's Her, about another sensitive, isolated soul who only ever manages to make a true connection with an intelligence he cultivates...

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 1, 2024

It is a really, really moving film about loneliness, and overcoming loneliness...

| Sep 9, 2024

Amusing and sad, avoiding all tweeness despite its potential oversentimentality, this heartwarming, engaging, and surprisingly complex animation is one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Sweetly, deceptively simple, this affecting all-ages animated film speaks to the boon of friendship without saying a word.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 24, 2024

Berger animates ROBOT DREAMS like an expressionistic mosaic, the artistry painting a mural of tender profundity. A 2D rendering of how transient life is...set to a charming percussive score that wags alongside Robot and Dog’s journeys.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 23, 2024

Robot Dreams offers an entertaining and warm story about how emotional bonds are transmuted, with the lesson that sometimes it is also appropriate to let them go to build new ones, with a bittersweet flavor due to the alternation of comedy and drama...

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Aug 22, 2024

Immerse yourself in pure unalloyed joy with a sweet, deceptively simple carbon-silicon platonic romance. Even the poignant bittersweetness of this emotional roller coaster is affirming and uplifting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 6, 2024

It is, in fact, a deeply emotional study of the unbalanced nature of friendships, one that conveys its utterly heartfelt findings through some of the most charming visual storytelling you might just in a film this year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 5, 2024

This is the sort of animated feature that displays precisely why it is such a valuable medium for storytelling. The story is fanciful, but the impact is real.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 14, 2024

A simple but bittersweet film that's charming, amusing, and easy on the eyes.

| Original Score: B | Jul 14, 2024

A wonderful, wonderful movie.

| Jul 13, 2024

I adore this film. It is so inventive and gorgeous.

| Jul 13, 2024

"Robot Dreams" is a lovingly rendered and deceptively simple animated tale that is bursting with soul and spirit and informed by the crushing pangs of loss.

| Original Score: A | Jul 11, 2024

When it is no longer possible to distinguish animation from live action, because almost nothing will be real in the movies, we will remember Robot Dreams. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 5, 2024

Berger’s film works from the virtues of realist classical animation: clean lines, simple story, endless surrealistic suggestiveness. The ache eddies.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 4, 2024

Make it the cult hit it deserves to be. It’s a moving experience all about overcoming loss, and that is an emotion that can certainly resonate across generations. I can almost guarantee, the smile will not leave your face throughout the entire film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 2, 2024

Regardless, the attention to detail is stunning, evoking an equal amount of awe and nostalgia. It truly feels like a trip back in time, right down to the graffiti-covered subways and the feeling that you could see the Twin Towers from anywhere in town.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 20, 2024