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Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A dystopian blend of live-action and animation that acidly comments on some of Hollywood's touchiest issues before drifting off into an existential fog. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: "The Congress" becomes as frustrating and expensive-looking as "Cloud Atlas." Try to follow it and you may feel abandoned in a maze. Read more
William Goss, MSN Movies: ...commits to Big Ideas of identity and integrity with Robin Wright remarkably anchoring it all as, well, herself. (Sort of.) Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: Beyond the recurring symbol of her son's red kite, there's little to connect Wright to this hallucinogenic animated space where disgruntled citizens are free to pass as the persona of their choice. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: It's a folly of the first order, but one that many people will nonetheless want to see, if only because it's so out there. Read more
Tom Russo, Boston Globe: A half-live-action, half-animated headtrip that throws Robin Wright into a dizzying showbiz paradigm shift. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: It spirals into logy animated nonsense. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Jettisoning a connection to anything concrete, Folman, who started his career in documentaries, loses his narrative moorings. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Ambitiously trippy and compulsively watchable ... Read more
Amy Nicholson, L.A. Weekly: Like its actress, it's an ambitious knockout that doesn't quite live up to its potential Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: The anger drains out of the picture, and we watch in a state of passive appreciation and indifference. Read more
Tomas Hachard, NPR: While always detailed in its visual execution, each new aspect of the film's world remains conceptually hollow, growing ultimately into a Matrix-style allegory for the nature of truth ... Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: It's almost painful to watch the immense promise of "The Congress," Ari Folman's spectacularly ambitious experiment, dissipate into nothing. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: An acquired taste, this dense Jabberwocky-ish word salad is a political allegory about a populace that's been pharmaceutically duped into believing its wretched world is wonderful. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: The movie is a howl of pain at the technological and corporate takeover of our fantasy lives - and, increasingly, our real lives. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: Busting with ideas, from ageism in Hollywood to the soullessness of digital life. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Globe and Mail: There's something to be said for a movie that manages to baffle and dazzle in equal measure. If Daffy Duck had taken up political and media theory, his brain might look like this. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: The Congress will thrill some but proves more often to be frustrating and lacking in emotion, especially when it comes to Wright. Even a sex scene feels devoid of passion. Read more