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Stopmotion (2023)

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Stopmotion

65

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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
  • 80
    Paste MagazineMatt Donato
    Paste MagazineMatt Donato
    Morgan’s feature debut is as stunning, diabolical and boundary-pushing an emergence as any filmmaker could hope to achieve.
  • 80
    The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
    The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
    The director and animator Robert Morgan has crafted a narratively slender, visually sophisticated first feature.
  • 80
    Film Threat
    Film Threat
    This is an atmospheric and beautifully crafted horror film, with its brains firmly on the inside.
  • 80
    Time OutPhil de Semlyen
    Time OutPhil de Semlyen
    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.
  • 70
    ColliderChase Hutchinson
    ColliderChase Hutchinson
    Stopmotion is a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted horror film with a great performance from Aisling Franciosi.
  • 67
    Austin ChronicleRichard Whittaker
    Austin ChronicleRichard Whittaker
    It's chilling and tragic in equal measures.
  • 63
    LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
    LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen
    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.
  • 50
    Slant MagazineSteven Scaife
    Slant MagazineSteven Scaife
    The film falters when it attempts to mold its best instincts into a discernible narrative shape.
  • 50
    VarietyDennis Harvey
    VarietyDennis Harvey
    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.
  • 50
    RogerEbert.comPeter Sobczynski
    RogerEbert.comPeter Sobczynski
    In “Stopmotion,” the debut feature from Robert Morgan, the medium—the painstaking and time-consuming process of stop-motion animation—may be unusual but the resulting film, an undeniably grisly but ultimately tedious tiptoe through the genre tropes, certainly is. This is all the more frustrating because in the middle of it all is a performance by Aisling Fransciosi that is so strong and committed that viewers will wish that the rest of the film had made the same kind of effort that she clearly did.
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