The Red Turtle is a truly delightful film that does its parent company proud. Hugely recommended.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 14, 2017

The depth and texture on show here - conjured from a surge of pencil marks and watercolour washes - is remarkable. The film is a must for the big screen.

| Jun 5, 2017

A precise and elegant fable, which uses magical realism to wind its elements together, The Red Turtle hints rather than hollers about the emotional bond between man and animal.

| Jun 5, 2017

The images are tamely drawn; the tale is wanly evolved.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2017

Small children often experience the world as simultaneously solid and fantastical; De Wit's beautiful film tugs us into that mindset.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 30, 2017

It is a work of art which transcends boundaries of language, culture, geography and age. It is simply magnificent.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 28, 2017

The Red Turtle is a dialogue-free love story, strange and sparingly supernatural.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2017

One for the desert island films list.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2017

The experience is captivating, transcendental even.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 25, 2017

It's a superb piece of work, beautiful and enigmatic.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2017

A lush and luminous visual symphony, which celebrates nature as both a furious, deadly force and a soothing source of love, this arthouse animation deserves to draw a big crowd.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2017

Some films are a speeding train. This one is a hammock on a Saturday afternoon.

| Original Score: B | Feb 24, 2017

There's no dialogue, the pace is quite slow and the meaning of the story is subject to interpretation. Yet once you're on its wavelength, the film is a mesmerizing experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2017

Few films have used color and light with such acuity - from the near monochrome of moonlight on a desolate beach to the infinite, illuminated shades of green in a bamboo forest.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 23, 2017

The Red Turtle is a profoundly simple meditation on the many ways we've become alienated from nature and from the Earth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2017

Whatever your perspective, there's one thing for sure: The Red Turtle is unlike anything else you've seen in a while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2017

In its artfully drawn frames, a simple and universal story unfolds.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 14, 2017

This is one of those animations that creates a world so beautiful the characters need only wander around in it.

| Feb 9, 2017

Watching "The Red Turtle" ... is like falling into an 80-minute wormhole of spare artistry.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 9, 2017

It's possible that you will feel slightly underwhelmed by the end, even as you murmur to yourself, "Well, that was lovely." But underwhelmed is not quite the same as disappointed.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 3, 2017