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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2024
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
Summary A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
Directed By: Robert Morgan
Written By: Robin King, Robert Morgan
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2024
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
Stopmotion
65
5.3
Where to Watch
Summary A stop-motion animator struggles to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother.
Directed By: Robert Morgan
Written By: Robin King, Robert Morgan
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
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30% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
65
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Stopmotion feels born out of the sheer mental challenge of being trapped in a room with macabre creations that come to life over weeks of painstaking labour.
The director and animator Robert Morgan has crafted a narratively slender, visually sophisticated first feature.
Morgan’s feature debut is as stunning, diabolical and boundary-pushing an emergence as any filmmaker could hope to achieve.
It's chilling and tragic in equal measures.
The movie’s dark magic occurs when the stop-motion story and the narrative proper bleed into each other (often literally), with goopy puppets invading Ella’s space while she—perhaps psychologically, perhaps in reality—finds herself trapped in theirs.
Masterful as he is at creating the stuff of nightmares, Morgan (as well as co-writer Robin King) is much less assured handling the character actions, psychology and dialogue outside his heroine’s fevered psyche.
The film falters when it attempts to mold its best instincts into a discernible narrative shape.
User Score
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.3
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 User Ratings
5.3
43% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
43% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
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