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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The PlaylistCarlos AguilarThe PlaylistCarlos AguilarTo watch Cryptozoo is to open a Disneyland-size kingdom of ideas that never cease to astound.
- 91The Film StageJuan BarquinThe Film StageJuan BarquinWhen something like Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo comes along, it’s easy to recognize as one of the most gorgeous works of American animation in ages.
- 90Film ThreatLorry KiktaFilm ThreatLorry KiktaWhen you turn on Cryptozoo, you’re in for something that’s unlike anything else you’ve seen before. It is the most interesting and singular animated movie I’ve seen in years.
- 80Screen DailyAllan HunterScreen DailyAllan HunterDespite all the influences that have been brought to bear on Cryptozoo, it still very much feels like its own creature.
- 80TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThis time out, the writer-director (in collaboration with animation director Jane Samborski) is even more assured as both a storyteller and as a crafter of images, be they outrageous or gorgeous, haunting or hilarious.
- 80VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangIn this zoo, the story may be tame, but the images, and the imagination that releases them, run wild.
- 73Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganInterested in interrogating the exploitation of fantasy and imagination for human consumption, Shaw’s psychedelic, patently adult animated feature brings daydreams into the pointedly violent and bleak reality that its genre contemporaries are privy to ignore.
- 72PolygonTasha RobinsonPolygonTasha RobinsonNothing about where the story is going or how it’ll get there stylistically can be taken for granted. That’s one of the biggest joys of Shaw’s projects — the sense of something new and different happening, of that anti-capitalist, anti-conformist, anti-containment bent that stretches throughout the story also extending into every aspect of the film’s aesthetics.
- 70SlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiSlashfilmHoai-Tran BuiWith its flat hand-drawn characters moving briskly across the richly detailed backgrounds, Cryptozoo is bursting to the seams with dazzling, shocking, brutal (and edgy, this is an adult animated film, remember) visuals.