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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The movie keeps flooding us with strange, scary imagery. Read more
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: [A] dizzying, ambitious excursion into the subconscious. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: For an alternate set of exciting alter egos, see Satoshi Kon's Paprika, a brilliant anime feature. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: What keeps the picture percolating is the stream of hallucinatory images, both nightmarish and oddly alluring, that Kon conjures. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: Kon rarely cares about the stagnant old real world that his films so frequently transcend. His characters fuss endlessly about fantasy's gripping, consuming power, but he himself seems blissfully unconcerned with where his gorgeous illusions take them. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: You could sit through the film two or three times to nail down the details of the story, but the film isn't interesting enough to warrant a second look. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: You stagger out of this one both grateful and ready for a deep and dreamless nap. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: That the supposed bad guys are actually intent in preserving the sanctity of dreams adds to the disorienting exhilaration of Kon's best work yet. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Is it sci-fi? Fantasy? Idiocy? Mostly it's a droning mess -- pretty to look at but confounding to the point where you just don't care any more. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [Satoshi] Kon mixes visual beauty with disorienting perspectives for a cautionary tale about machine-influenced soullessness and the persistent Japanese popular love of the cute. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Especially for fans who understand how movies are put together, Paprika grabs you from the get-go in a series of flowing images and transitions that follow the skewed logic of a dream, jumping from a three-ring circus to a swinging jungle vine. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: A masterly example of Japanese anime, intended for adults. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The anything-goes dream logic is confusing, and the question of why, late in the game, the nighttime fantasies start becoming real, is left mostly unexplained. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Whatever it is you're looking for -- comedy, horror, parades of singing frogs and dancing kitchen appliances -- you'll find it in Satoshi Kon's anime adventure, a jaw-dropping feat of imagination. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: I can't claim to have followed the story line of Paprika any better than I did Pirates of the Caribbean, but this mind-blowing, adult animated adventure from Japan is half the length and maybe five times as much fun. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: With a conventional invade-dreams/bend-reality plot, it's a bit of a bore. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: This one jacks you into cyberspace, involving you psychically and physically. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is without question a unique and superior achievement. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The uber-dream is both gorgeously animated, in Kon's shimmering, hyperreal style, and sickeningly scary. Read more
Paige Wiser, Chicago Sun-Times: My advice? Enter your own dream state, and surrender your brain. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: We're so used to current cautious commercial formulas, it comes as an enjoyable shock to see something like Satoshi Kon's Japanese film, Paprika, which reminds us that with animation, almost anything you can imagine can be represented. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: As a showcase of the limitless power of the imagination, Paprika never fails to delight the eye and engage the mind. We are never sure exactly whom we should be cheering for, or even if we're rooting for real characters or their avatars. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The movie bombards us with so many overlapping fantasies, it's hard -- and in many ways, beside the point -- to keep up with the plot. It's best appreciated by assuming something of a dream state ourselves and enjoying the giddy flow. Read more