If you're an art lover or like a good narrative you will love this

Truly remarkable, ground breaking, informative, entertaining, stunning masterpiece!

The results are visually dazzling. The movie as a whole is something less.

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

As stimulating as it is, the animation ends up being more pictorial than expressive—an initially fancy but eventually rather monotonous way to dress up what is ultimately a mundane drag of a detective procedural.

As the story limps and drags, the viewer also becomes accustomed to the images, and astonishment at the film’s innovative, painstaking technique begins to fade. But its charm never quite wears off, for reasons summed up in the title.

A.O. Scott

The New York Times