Robot Stories
  • Studio: Pak Film
  • Release Date: Feb 13, 2004
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Metascore
66 out of 100

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  • Summary: Four stories in which utterly human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies, robot toys, android office workers, and digital immortality.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    100
    This is a science fiction film, but like all excellent movies in the genre, the focus never strays from the human heart.
  2. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    78
    As a complete work, Robot Stories is a solid collection.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Mark Jenkins
    60
    Most of the performances are excellent. The scripts, however, are slight and unsurprising.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    10
    Robot Stories isn't any good. I don't say this lightly. There's no pleasure in giving new directors bad reviews and it's especially unpleasant when what's wrong with their work isn't a clumsy performance or two, a sagging second act or a repugnant worldview, but a near-total absence of filmmaking talent.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. ChadS.
    6
    It's not so much the shoestring budget, but the amateurish performances that hamper "Robot Stories"; in particular, the female lead in "My Robot Baby". She was the weak link in a well-received studio film in '93, and here as well. "My Robot Baby" brought back memories of that gussied-up sack of flour I took care of for a week. It's a good idea that's squandered by acting that draws our attention to the digital video. "The Robot Fixer" is okay. "Clay" needs more time in the kiln. "Robot Love", however, is provocative, better than anything George Lucas, or Shields & Yarnell, ever came up with.… Expand

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