Younger viewers will love the hi-jinks and colorful animation. Teens will identify themselves in its diverse and instantly lovable cast. Adults will marvel at the eloquence of its script. In short, Turning Red is an instant classic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 4, 2024

Turning Red’s funny, sweet, and empathetic portrait of cultural identity, gentle teen rebellion, and tetchy mother-daughter relations gets an extra boost from fake boy band 4*Town.

| Feb 9, 2024

Domee Shi’s direction is so unique and fun, but it can also overpower a lot of the emotions and or sentiment.

| Feb 8, 2024

Pixar’s delightful ode to female adolescence...

| Sep 13, 2023

The film stresses how the best way to hold on tight to a child is to loosen your grip.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2023

Turning Red is a rollercoaster of a film that takes different turns as the story unfolds leaving audiences engaged with Mei and her family. It is full of thrills and nostalgia while also feeling like a reinvention of Pixar.

| Jul 26, 2023

A delightful surprise! Not just one of Pixar’s most personal stories yet… but a great coming of age story that will bring you back to your days in 8th grade & puberty.

| Jul 25, 2023

Turning Red is the riskiest, possibly the most divisive work in Pixar history. Without any remorse or restraint, Domee Shi and Julia Cho unapologetically approach the sensitive topic of (female) puberty in a quite shocking, positively impactful manner.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 25, 2023

Yes, Turning Red is about a specific life and a specific culture, but its specificity is its greatest strength. A lesson we can all learn.

| Jul 25, 2023

Turning Red finds ways to creatively illustrate the growing pains of adolescence and its root causes. It's a tear-inducing stroll down memory lane.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 21, 2023

Even when pandamonium breaks out Shi always has the emotional backdrop fully under control.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 26, 2023

A Pixar film with an energized spirit, along with a gentle and patient heart.

| Original Score: B | Jan 4, 2023

With winning characters and an engaging storyline, Turning Red is a humorous look at the awkwardness of growing up and figuring out how to break away and hold on at the same time.

| Dec 22, 2022

Turning Red celebrates femininity, friendship, and family, in addition to being really funny.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 10, 2022

Pixar movies are often in the hunt for end-of-the-year awards, and “Turning Red” looks like a good bet this awards season.

| Original Score: A | Dec 2, 2022

"Turning Red rejects this progression of events as a birthright, and allows Meilin the agency to choose her own path and lean into the difference that makes her special. It’s a truly stunning execution of a much-needed message."

| Nov 19, 2022

Whether you zero in on generations of female empowerment and healing, or the lush tail of a gigantic furry beast, there is something for everyone in Turning Red.

| Oct 11, 2022

Turning Red finds Pixar surveying some of its most mature subject matter yet - strengthened by cultural specificity - while simultaneously retaining the studio’s signature heart and humor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 1, 2022

a funny, compassionate and intelligent animated coming-of-age film with art that communicates the beauty of Chinese culture… addresses the myriad, complex, feelings and sensations of puberty and adolescence with honesty and sensitivity to nuance

| Aug 23, 2022

Director Domee Shi, who won an Academy Award® for her Pixar short film Bao, makes her feature film directing debut with a story that is both extremely personal and thematically universal.

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