Ari Folman’s well-meaning Where Is Anne Frank will work as an educational tool for children but struggles to feel complete or effective as a feature film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2024

It is not just an ode to the writings of this wonderful girl, but a stark reminder of what her legacy stands for.

| Jul 15, 2024

Where Is Anne Frank is a timely, and necessary story. It's just a shame Folman chose to tell that story in this way.

| Original Score: D | Apr 25, 2024

Ari Forman retells the famous Holocaust victim’s story in animated form, within a modern-day framework mixing fantasy and immigration politics.

| Mar 4, 2024

The film is an interesting experiment that doesn’t quite cohere.

| Feb 16, 2024

Tying the Holocaust to the ongoing refugee crisis feels a little heavy-handed, though it's difficult to be too critical of a story that hammers the importance of love over hate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 1, 2023

At times it can feel a little didactic, but there’s no denying the urgency of the film’s message or the earnestness of its conviction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 20, 2022

This is a visually spirited and poignant rendering of a figure at risk of being lost to younger generations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 17, 2022

Where Is Anne Frank? is [Ari Folman's] first time making a film aimed at children, but for better or worse, his ambition hasn’t been the least bit reined in by his audience.

| Aug 17, 2022

Working with Waltz with Bashir animation director Yoni Goodman, Folman places eye-catching 2D characters against exquisite stop-motion backgrounds. As if in answer to the title, the spectacular designs confirm that she’s right here.

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

The flashback events of Frank’s life are elegantly interlaced with Kitty’s journey and though a modern refugee subplot feels slightly ungainly, Folman never once loses sight of the overwhelming horror of the Holocaust.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

The format is an inventive way to tell the story to younger audiences, and works well to be informative and engaging without being patronising for the age group it’s aimed at, and the up-to-date setting and references ensure it’s relatable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2022

Done with sensitivity and skill.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 12, 2022

Israeli writer-director Ari Folman, whose own parents survived Auschwitz, explores that weird disconnect between myth and history by, paradoxically, using fantasy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 12, 2022

Folman [makes] blunt but effective points about the lessons of her young life being forgotten by an adult world too concerned with her value as a tourist attraction.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2022

Doesn’t need to make sense of Anne Frank’s diaries – they speak for themselves – but instead builds a bridge to the present day, where Folman finds a troubling deafness to the very lessons, and alarm bells, that her legacy ought to have guaranteed.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2022

A memorable mix of struggle and beauty

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 11, 2022

Beyond the beautiful visuals, there is not enough to either inspire or educate audiences about the famous diarist.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 11, 2022

Takes a familiar story and does something really interesting and affecting with it.

| Aug 8, 2022

Folman employs a range of styles that bitter-sweetly immerse us in her imagination and deadly reality, and the result is both vibrant and desperately sad.

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