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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: An extraordinary achievement, Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir is a detective story as well as an moral inquiry into the specific horrors of one war, and one man's buried memories of that war. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Its fluid boundary between the real and surreal lifts it into the realm of myth. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: Animation may be the ideal medium for replicating dreams, and in this unsettling feature by Ari Folman it also proves well suited to autobiography. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir is an absolute stunner, a feature-length animated documentary, from Israel, in which the force of moving drawings amplifies eerily powerful accounts of war, shaky remembrance and rock-solid repression. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: A unique, Oscar-nominated 'animated documentary' that uses graphic-novel-style animation to deal with the Israeli army's participation in the Lebanon war of 1982. Read more
Jonathan F. Richards, Film.com: The flatness and stiff, jerky movement of the drawing contribute to the dreamlike, increasing dread-filled atmosphere of the visuals, which burst finally into actual filmed images of devastating impact. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: More impressionistic portrait and meditation on memory than serious journalistic inquiry into the South Lebanon massacre at the center of his mental block. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Complex, challenging and at times difficult to watch, Waltz With Bashir is nevertheless wholly unique, unquestionably powerful and, ultimately, a devastating indictment of war and its effects on its victims and its participants. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film, devastating and distressing in equal measure, widens in meaning as it narrows in scope. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: The film looks ripped straight from Folman's psyche and placed in a theater near you. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Waltz With Bashir is a supremely courageous act, not only as a piece of filmmaking, but much more so as a moral testament. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: It is powerful because this work of art also provides such a cautionary tale about the psychic burdens young soldiers carry deep inside them decades after they've laid down their weapons. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: A wholly original and emotionally devastating animated documentary confessional. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Extraordinary and painfully timely. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: It's a fearless and unblinking march into the heart of one man's darkness and the pain and anguish of generations and nations. Read more
Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: For all the horror, Bashir is a non-political film; it mourns the violence of men killing men -- any men killing any men Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: These depictions of the dementia of war have a hallucinatory power that can stand alongside those of Apocalypse Now. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: A movie so unusual that it overflows any box in which you try to contain it. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Unfortunately, in Waltz With Bashir, the medium is superior to the message. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Eerily beautiful. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Waltz With Bashir plays out as one of the most profoundly explosive animated documentaries I have ever seen, and is clearly one of the best pictures of the year. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The look of Waltz with Bashir is what is most arresting. It's a deep, multi-plane style of animation that incorporates photo-real settings, realistic renderings of the people and under-animated movement, especially of faces. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Bashir wasn't healing for me. On the contrary, it leaves much unresolved, but in the pacifist, passive horror recovered by its amnesiacs, I found it stunning -- in both meanings of the word -- and emotionally cathartic. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Folman is an Israeli documentarian who has not worked in animation. Now he uses it as the best way to reconstruct memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present. This film would be nearly impossible to make any other way. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Waltz With Bashir is hallucinatory brilliance in the service of understanding the psychic damage of war. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Waltz With Bashir might be the year's most singular visionary experience available at the movies, and catapults [director Ari] Folman from the obscurity of Israeli TV onto the world stage. Read more
Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Chronicle: The best movie of 2008? The most revealing war film ever made? The greatest animated feature to come out of Israel? All these descriptions could apply to Waltz With Bashir. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If you expect documentaries to be dry doctoral dissertations with talking heads and archival film footage, prepare to be electrified. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Persepolis meets Full Metal Jacket in Ari Folman's powerful and original animated war film. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Profound, and profoundly affecting. Read more
Mary Corliss, TIME Magazine: The message of the futility of war has rarely been painted with such bold strokes. Read more
Dave Calhoun, Time Out: It's messy and unusual, not always gratifying, sometimes frustrating, always compelling. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: A powerful, poignant and provocative film, told in an unconventional and effective fashion. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A grim, deeply personal phantasmagoria around the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Read more
John Anderson, Washington Post: Waltz With Bashir, a movie about memory, is as devious and subversive as it is brilliant and nightmarish. Read more