Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: L’isola dei cani è invece un omaggio sentimentale, non solo al miglior amico dell’uomo, ma alla cultura visiva giapponese, alla sua lingua e al suo rigore zen, evidentemente centrali nell’universo poetico del regista dei Tenenbaum.
- [New] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ Spirituality & Practice
- Excerpt: An imaginative tribute to dogs with some social commentary on the side.
- Francisco Cangiano @ CineXpress [Spanish]
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: The animating is breathtaking. However, Wes Anderson’s vision for the film seems remarkably hollow, relying on images of the most basic Japanese cultural touchstones, like some kind of tourist.
- Matt Donato @ Flickering Myth
- Excerpt: Isle Of Dogs is imagination without a leash. A larger-than-life adventure that never feels as big as its scope – albeit delightful, adorable and willing to please.
- James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Wesley Lovell @ A quasi-futuristic society places old grudges above good intentions in this vivid and arresting animated feature from Wes Anderson, “Isle of Dogs.”
- Simon Miraudo @ Student Edge
- Jared Mobarak @ JaredMobarak.com
- Excerpt: The script is brisk, funny, and inventive in its back and forth progression, aural and visual callbacks, and sheer absurd audacity. [But] it’s easy to say the filmmakers didn’t care how problematic their characters were as long as they served [that] elaborate, over-arching narrative.
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Kristy Puchko @ Riot Material
- Excerpt: With this original story set in a dystopian Japan, the acclaimed filmmaker steps out of his comfort zone, creating an adventure that’s whimsical, bittersweet, and uncomfortably problematic.
- Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: There is just an inescapable demeaning of Japanese culture and heritage with a little American girl cast as the heroine for the Japanese town and the little Japanese boy’s dialogue not subtitled.
- Nuno Reis @ SciFiWorld Portugal
- Excerpt: Anderson volta a conseguir. Faz uma das maiores odes cinematográficas ao melhor amigo do homem que é capaz de levar o mais empedernido coração às lágrimas sem comprometer a narrativa e a mensagem.
- Júlio Cézar Rodrigues @ Megalomania Cultural [Portuguese]
- Luiz Santiago @ Plano Crítico [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: It is possible to incorporate the most diverse intentional visions of the director here, be it the anti-Trump reading, the hero’s journey with existentialist pitfalls or criticism of all kinds of ideological brainwashing and prejudice to convince the masses to hate something …
- James Wegg @ JWR
- Excerpt: Leave it to the wonderfully over-inventive talents of Wes Anderson to cobble together an animated feature that brings new meaning to “going to the dogs”.
- Robert Yaniz Jr. @ Monkeys Fighting Robots