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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Fantasy leaks into reality. Read full review
Kon's best work yet. Read full review
A gorgeous riot of future-shock ideas and brightly animated imagery, the doors of perception never close. Read full review
Someone walking cold into a movie theater showing Paprika might be excused for thinking the screen was having a Technicolor seizure. Fans of Japanese anime and filmmaker Satoshi Kon will simply feel dazzlingly at home. Read full review
Satoshi Kon, whose previous film was the remarkable "Tokyo Godfathers," uses the complex plot as a pretext for joyous psychedelia. Read full review
It's not a film for children, and it's not even something children would like. It's challenging and disturbing and uncanny in the ways it captures the nature of dreams -- their odd logic, mutability and capacity to hint at deepest terrors. Read full review
Fiercely provocative, Paprika shames Hollywood's use of animation as a kiddie pacifier. Read full review
It is an intelligently written piece that only falters during the finale. Read full review
It's best appreciated by assuming something of a dream state ourselves and enjoying the giddy flow. Read full review
With its brainy scientist heroine, and surreal, super-kitsch imagery, above-average Japanese anime sci-fi pic Paprika has a better chance than most Nipponese toons of breaking out of the specialty ghetto by appealing to femme auds as well as the genre's core constituency of fanboys. Read full review
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… mind-blowingly gorgeous, psychedelic … Read full review