The little boy here, a stick-figured, button-headed, wide-eyed tot with a signature red-and-white striped shirt, is one of the most distinctive and adorable animated characters you’ll ever come across, and his introduction to “the world out there” is a moving revelation indeed.

Miriam Di Nunzio

Chicago Sun-Times

It’s both the best children’s animated film this year since “Inside Out” — you might call it “Outside In” — and, unexpectedly, a more stirring depiction of the deadening modern megalopolis than most heal-the-world documentaries.

Nicolas Rapold

The New York Times

Virtually dialogue-free and animated in a cacophony of playful bright colors and ominous industrial landscapes, Boy the World plays like a dream segueing into a nightmare.

Sara Stewart

New York Post