It is joyfully inventive and utterly strange.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 24, 2021

You'll want to watch this more than once just to catch all the references. The imagery will seem familiar but like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse this movie takes familiar images and tropes and forms them into something fresh and exciting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2021

... even if its considerable invention lies strictly on the surface, that surface constitutes an impressively ambitious and imaginative leap...

| Oct 28, 2020

A feast for fine art aficionados and movie buffs.

| May 29, 2020

The animation is superb and unlike anything seen before.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2020

Ruben Brandt, Collector is weird and cool and witty and seductive; I can't remember when an animated feature had this level of visual appeal for me.

| Jan 7, 2020

I wasn't wild about it... I think it tries to be live-action a little too hard in some places.

| Sep 20, 2019

Even if you don't know the names of every painting flashing across the screen you are aware that you are witnessing masterpieces from almost the first frame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2019

Thanks to a lucidly strong story with wildly free animation, Ruben Brandt, Collector is one of the most intoxicating and intelligent of animated films.

| Jul 3, 2019

Krstic has achieved quite a lot, putting on screen a style unlike anything else seen in the year's best animated films. That the storyline in the end distracts from such an impressively drawn film may be a dealbreaker for some...or it may not.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 29, 2019

This unclassifiable animated jewel gathers cinephile and pictorial winks to tell an accelerated story that connects with the tradition of the cinematographic serial. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 10, 2019

... uses its canvas to create a dreamlike interpretation of the varied artistic eccentricities of its subjects, supplementing a globetrotting storyline that yields a stylish visual backdrop.

| May 10, 2019

[MIlorad] Krstić knows his strong points as a narrator and exploits them to the fullest. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2019

There are a lot of characters to keep track of, plenty of plot points to digest and a fair amount of psycho-babble. Eventually, it all becomes too much and interest wanes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 26, 2019

The story and plot didn't really do it for me but the animation was pretty cool and it was engaging enough to recommend

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Apr 7, 2019

Ruben Brandt, Collector is an intricately plotted, hyper-stylized piece of eye candy with art - the love of, the need for, the inability to escape from - at its wildly beating heart.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

It's a post-modern heist film, full of references and short of surprises.

| Mar 18, 2019

There's a tremendous amount of skill here, but how enjoyable it is depends at least partly on how willing you are to suspend your sense of artistic democracy, shall we say.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 15, 2019

The first half is entertaining, though at times the storyline can feel mushed together. But when the plot really locks in, Ruben Brandt becomes a surprisingly compelling film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 14, 2019

Art nerds will get the most out of "Ruben Brandt, Collector," an adults-only animated thriller from Hungary whose visual imagination far outpaces its lackluster plot.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2019