More than the sum of its deadpan quirks.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2022

Beneath the crazy candy-coloured palette, there is actually some real human warmth in the love story, and the acting ensemble features some great comic performers in supporting roles...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2022

Some bolder flights of fancy even gesture at fluffy 80s fantasy for kids like The NeverEnding Story, but always in an endearingly handmade way, which the bedroom grandeur of Dan Deacon’s score offsets at key moments.

| Feb 23, 2022

Its sensibility is truly a gentle one. The screenplay may not cohere in ways designed to please the dream-logic-averse, but its wit is neatly matched by the wit of the visual landscapes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2022

When it’s really cooking, “Strawberry Mansion” is a stalwart entry in the Cinema du Edibles, and it marks Audley and Birney as a duo to keep an eye on.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Strawberry Mansion is an eccentric hybrid, like a handmade Valentine.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 18, 2022

Birney and Audley seem driven to create work with a voice and a bite, and when everyone does finally catch up, “Strawberry Mansion” will be among the many films in their catalog for fans to devour and appreciate.

| Feb 18, 2022

A dollhouse constructed on a fault line....The two filmmakers enjoy knocking down the walls of their own creation. This is a movie about letting the mind roam.

| Original Score: A | Feb 17, 2022

“Strawberry Mansion” is one of the most unique American independent films to open its doors in recent memory. Only time will tell if it can attain the cult status that its charming idiosyncrasy most definitely merits.

| Feb 17, 2022

With a modest budget that belies the eye-popping visuals at play, filmmaking duo Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney have affectionately crafted a sweet romance surrounded by the tart crunch of satire.

| Feb 17, 2022

Relies on a wide array of movie techniques and deploys them in conspicuously hands-on ways to create a wild science-fiction world that satirizes grim trends of modern life while tapping into a haunted realm of frustrations and desires.

| Feb 17, 2022

It’s very much its own thing, and in this movie day and age that is no small accomplishment.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 17, 2022

There’s a lot to appreciate about Strawberry Mansion as an aesthetic object, a flight of imagination, and a sci-fi vision.

| Original Score: B | Feb 17, 2022

Despite striking images and provocative ideas, there isn’t enough drama to keep the narrative awake for 91 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 15, 2022

Strawberry Mansion playfully and delightfully draws parallels between the creative agency of dreams and the waking creativity of filmmaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2022

A film to admire not just for its psychedelic aesthetic delirium, but also for its pure moxie, its gleeful embrace of the very idea of filmmaking itself.

| Aug 1, 2021

Strawberry Mansion is sensational, strange, and sophisticatedly sweet.

| Feb 1, 2021

Even as [it] stretches its flights of fancy past breaking point, there are pleasures to be taken from the blithe, handmade execution of its vision, throwing everything in the pot from creaky animal puppetry to 8-bit effects.

| Jan 31, 2021

It's a candy-colored storybook that wants nothing more than to put you at ease.

| Jan 30, 2021

The filmmakers do a lot with little and don't try to hide it, providing a welcome contrast to the idea that effects-driven storytelling exclusively belongs within the costly realm of Hollywood spectacles.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 30, 2021