WALL-E
Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures | Release Date: June 27, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
95
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 39 Critic Reviews
Positive:
39
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Mixing Chaplinesque delicacy with the architectural grandeur of a Stanley Kubrick film, director Andrew Stanton recycles film history and makes something fresh and accessible from it without pandering to a young audience. Read full review
100
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
This is a beautiful movie. Read full review
100
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
The movie does work, spectacularly. Read full review
100
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The best American film of the year to date. Read full review
100
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Daring and traditional, groundbreaking and familiar, apocalyptic and sentimental, Wall-E gains strength from embracing contradictions that would destroy other films. Read full review
100
TimeRichard Corliss
It works; this is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since "Nemo." Read full review
100
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Once again, the Pixar wizards have pushed the animation envelope in unexpected directions and come up with a winner. Wondrously inventive, funny and poignant, WALL*E is part sci-fi adventure, part cautionary fable, part satire and part love story, which may be the best and most improbable part of all. Read full review
100
Rolling StonePeter Travers
You leave WALL-E with a feeling of the rarest kind: that you've just enjoyed a close encounter with an enduring classic. Read full review
100
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
The new Pixar picture Wall-E is one for the ages, a masterpiece to be savored before or after the end of the world. Read full review
100
EmpireOlly Richards
To call WALL•E Pixar's best film would potentially denigrate films that deserve no scorn. But this is their most ambitious undertaking since "Toy Story" and storytelling of such charm and visual wit that it can stand proudly alongside the studio’s best. Absolute heaven. Read full review
100
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
A film that's both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate. Read full review
100
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
The visual design of Wall-E is arguably Pixar's best. Stanton, who wrote the script with Jim Reardon from a story he concocted with Peter Docter, creates two fantastically imaginative, breathtakingly lit worlds. Read full review
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
While I may argue with the little guy's taste in musicals, it's remarkable to see any film, in any genre, blend honest sentiment with genuine wit and a visual landscape unlike any other. Read full review
100
New York PostLou Lumenick
A charming, hilarious robot love story aimed at the entire family. Read full review
100
USA TodayClaudia Puig
At once futuristic, funny and fantastical. Read full review
100
Washington PostJohn Anderson
The idea that a company in the business of mainstream entertainment would make something as creative, substantial and cautionary as WALL-E has to raise your hopes for humanity. Read full review
100
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
It's Pixar's most daring experiment to date, but it still fits neatly into the studio's pantheon: Made with as much focus on heart as on visual quality, it's a sheer joy. Read full review
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It whisks you to another world, then makes it every inch our own. Read full review
100
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
The first 40 minutes or so of Wall-E -- in which barely any dialogue is spoken, and almost no human figures appear on screen -- is a cinematic poem of such wit and beauty that its darker implications may take a while to sink in. Read full review
100
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The first half hour of WALL-E is essentially wordless, and left me speechless. This magnificent animated feature from Pixar starts on such a high plane of aspiration, and achievement, that you wonder whether the wonder can be sustained. But yes, it can. Read full review
100
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages. Read full review
91
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
The story line for WALL-E is probably too convoluted for small kids, and sometimes it suffers from techie overload, but it's more heartfelt than anything on the screens these days featuring humans. Read full review
91
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
A charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling. Read full review
90
NPRBob Mondello
The first hour of Wall-E is a crazily inventive, deliriously engaging and almost wordless silent comedy of the sort that Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used to make. Read full review
90
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
A thoroughly enjoyable film, and ranks with Pixar's best. Read full review
90
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Apparently, the movie has caused annoyance in some quarters because it criticizes the American way of life. This it does, and with suavity and supreme good humor. WALL-E is a classic, but it will never appeal to people who are happy with art only when it has as little bite as possible. Read full review
89
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
This is Pixar's finest and most emotionally powerful film yet, and it draws on a wealth of cinematic resources that run the gamut from Chaplin's best to Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati, and even Martin and Lewis. Read full review
88
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Put simply, WALL-E is about as charming as movies get. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Succeeds at being three things at once: an enthralling animated film, a visual wonderment and a decent science-fiction story. Read full review
88
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
A potent environmental message wrapped up in an irresistibly cute romance between robots. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
It's a justifiably G-rated film, but parents may have some 'splainin' to do. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Rotates around a rusty little robotic hero who's built, as the movie is, with such emotion, brains and humor that whole universes exist in his whirring tones and binocular eyes. Read full review
80
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Walks a fine line between the rarefied and the immediately accessible as it explores new territory for animation, yet remains sufficiently crowd-pleasing. Read full review
80
Chicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall
The movie's first half is largely free of dialogue, playing like silent comedy, while the second act offers a breathtaking tour of the cosmos. Read full review
80
SlateDana Stevens
Wall-E is an improbable delight, a G-rated crowd-pleaser. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
With rich, detailed, cinematic animation and terrific sound effects, WALLE pulls this unlikely love story off. Read full review
75
PremiereJenni Miller
When it works, it really works, but it's debatable whether its target audience will really enjoy anything more than the nifty robots. Which is fine, too. Robots are pretty cool. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
In the moment, it's intermittently transcendent, heartrending and beautiful ... and busy, repetitious and boring. Read full review
70
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The picture feels weirdly, and disappointingly, disjointed, something that starts out as poetry and ends as product. Read full review
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