Although uneven and tentative, Robot Stories is sufficiently thoughtful, provocative and original to make you wonder what Greg Pak might do with access to better parts.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 3, 2004

Robot Stories has the look and feel of an above-average student film, but Pak's potential promises better things to come.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 11, 2004

Mr. Pak accomplishes the rare feat of making the viewer think and wonder as he sheds light on little corners of the heart.

| Original Score: B+ | May 13, 2004

As a complete work, Robot Stories is a solid collection.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2004

These are tales from the heart -- pulsing to a high-tech beat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2004

Robot Stories is a both a throwback and, hopefully, a sign of things to come.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 16, 2004

There's no pleasure in giving new directors bad reviews and it's especially unpleasant when what's wrong with their work isn't a clumsy performance or two, a sagging second act or a repugnant worldview, but a near-total absence of filmmaking talent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2004

Impressive if modest debut effort.

Full Review | Mar 1, 2004

The work of a feeling thinker who understands how to communicate sincerity without giving you a headache, a cavity, or a lecture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2004

Slight and unsurprising.

Full Review | Feb 20, 2004

The collection can be summed up in four words I never thought I'd see together: science-fiction chamber music.

| Original Score: B | Feb 19, 2004

Concerned with detailing the various interactions of an unsettling, fragile humanity with its own technology.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2004

The stories, which range in length from 20 to 25 minutes, have an unhurried pace but they never dawdle and never bore.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2004

The Twilight Zone for the 21st century.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 13, 2004

Greg Pak's fantasy anthology piece, which details the ways robots have complicated the lives of humans, has a dexterous sense of wonder that nonetheless leaves the film feeling a bit detached.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 12, 2004

A quietly impassioned, genuinely stirring indie rarity.

| Feb 10, 2004

Accomplished 2002 quartet of vignettes about artificial human life.

| Jan 10, 2004