With Sita, Paley brings the same, highly specific and very personal vision we associate with the best indie and alternative filmmaking to the animated form, and the result is riveting.
Paley's production shines with brilliance and great humor.
90
VarietyRonnie Scheib
VarietyRonnie Scheib
Paley sustains a consistently funny, sometimes even self-deprecatory comic tone.
90
Village Voice
Village Voice
Paley's beguiling, consistently inventive visuals and sly yet melancholy tone are about as warm and winning as heartbreak-fueled empowerment gets.
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The film, dazzling and poignant and five years in the making, retells the ancient Indian epic "The Ramayana" from a gentle but insistent feminist perspective.
80
Time OutDavid Fear
Time OutDavid Fear
This colorful, cranium-bursting film isn’t about one specific tale so much as the endless ways you can present narratives; it’s nothing less than a kitchen-sink deconstruction on the art of storytelling.
80
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
Arriving amidst a tidal wave of overblown and frequently charmless big studio efforts, Sita Sings the Blues is a welcome reminder that when it comes to animation bigger isn't necessarily better.