Birdboy: The Forgotten Children

"Sardonic, cruel, funny, macabre, yet surprisingly good-hearted, this bizarre adventure won’t fit into standard commercial theatrical slots for animated features. But deserved critical and fan support should eventually guide it to its niche audience." 

"At once despairing, beautiful, haunting, and surreal (...) The hand-drawn simplicity of these characters only serves to highlight the depth and complexity of their interior lives (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)" 

"[It] is the darkest and most daring hand-drawn animated movie of the year. It alternates between the horrific and the comical, and its imagery assaults the viewer like a nightmarish Goya painting." 

"A deeply dark and memorably twisted flight of fancy (...) An endlessly inventive excursion into despair, death and rebirth" 

"The simple precision of the hand-drawn characters and of the watercolor world they inhabit provide visual coherence and establish an atmosphere of fascination as well as dread." 

"As an artistic vision, the movie is compelling (...) 'Birdboy' is its own weird, woolly and surprisingly sensitive foray into the grimmer corners of life"