There is very little newness to its narrative, yet it still manages to touch your heart just right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 14, 2024

This tale of dinosaur versus Nature offers no end of physical challenges and dangers to overcome, but it also happens to be one of the most unbelievably funny and affecting Pixar films to date.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 25, 2022

Pixar's The Good Dinosaur features some of the studio's most dazzling animation yet, but its story, while satisfying, borrows a few tricks from its predecessors.

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

At a few spots in the film, I shed some quiet tears, thinking about my own family.

| Sep 13, 2021

Contains a few intense circle-of-life scenes that may be too much for youngsters but also milks as much emotion from its simple story as possible. In Pixar's world dinosaurs can cry... and just might make you shed a tear as well.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 3, 2021

We used to say Pixar could do no wrong, but they did and they did a terrible wrong, something not even worthy of the Disney animation division in their worst ruts.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 16, 2020

The photorealism is essentially indistinguishable from actual outdoor locations, which begs the question as to why these components were animated at all.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Of all of Disney/Pixar's work, this is by far the most absurd.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 14, 2020

Filled with a visual and emotional magic and majesty that touches the senses and the heart, The Good Dinosaur is 'Dino-Rrific'!!

| Nov 29, 2019

What rises the entertainment quality of The Good Dinosaur above what is unquestionably derivative are those encounters, and the environments in which they experience them.

| Original Score: B | Oct 17, 2019

A visually gorgeous, minimalist survival Western filled with weirdos, danger, and surprisingly mature themes.

| Sep 1, 2019

For me, The Good Dinosaur will be a pleasant, forgettable experience. But for some kid out there, it's going to be the first time they grappled with the concept of mortality. In that sense, the movie may not be that good, but at least it's doing good.

| Original Score: C | Jul 9, 2019

It works fine on its own and is an entertaining and occasionally moving children's film, it just feels a bit more anonymous than the high quality we've come to expect from Pixar.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 5, 2019

Innovation and imagination prove to be as extinct as pterodactyls in the modern world.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 20, 2019

This is a film like Bambi or Dumbo that are about the growth of a character and are artistically ambitious at the same time.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 18, 2019

It's impossible to rave enough about the elemental beauty of The Good Dinosaur.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2019

The Good Dinosaur is more humble than Pixar's typical fare, choosing to refine and riff on familiar ideas and themes rather than build new ones from the ground up and live on the cutting edge.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Feb 27, 2019

It's dark, depressing and pretty questionable as a family film.

| Feb 5, 2019

A film that works in the moment, but doesn't really have any long-term staying power.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 17, 2019

It has a few flashes of fun, as with a Triceratops...and some moments of real beauty, one of which is prominently featured in the advertising. Still, it's not the kind of surprising, imaginative fare we normally associate with Pixar.

| Dec 7, 2018