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Waltz With Bashir is a dreamy, animated psycho-documentary... [where] Folman the director and Folman the long-ago soldier together create a sublime, at times devastatingly lyrical depiction of combat's essential surreality.

If this were a live-action documentary, it would feel like any other war story, albeit with a more intriguing narrative that propels said historical docudrama. But in the realm of animation, the brutal, bloody violence feels like even more of a violation when depicted as, to put it bluntly, a cartoon.

It's a movie that uses animation to bring us into characters' memories, to bring us back to places that may never have been real to begin with, and that would never have been recreated accurately in live action anyway. It wants us to consider the human element of war rather than the strategies, the numbers, the visceralness, the characters that it can create.

What’s on view in Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir... is hallucinatory brilliance in the service of understanding the psychic damage of war... Get ready to be knocked for a loop.

Animation may be the ideal medium for replicating dreams, and in this unsettling 2008 feature by Ari Folman it also proves well suited to autobiography.

[Folman] uses [animation] as the best way to reconstruct memories, fantasies, hallucinations, possibilities, past and present. This film would be nearly impossible to make any other way.

Extraordinary and painfully timely.... Waltz With Bashir transcends the definitions of ”cartoon” or ”war documentary” to be classified as its own brilliant invention.

The whole movie seems like an acid trip - an Alice in Wonderlandish dream for a post-9/11 world where war is a constant - and that's the beauty of "Waltz With Bashir." Folman's work... allows the audience to enter a kind of forbidden zone where the characters' fantasies seem as realistic as the deadly bullets they faced.

[Folman] has made a movie so unusual that it overflows any box in which you try to contain it... You come out feeling more troubled in mind than when you went in, and with considerable scarring to your mind’s eye.

[A] masterpiece... The director has used every drop of his artistry to open us up to the sting of death.

[Waltz With Bashir] is stunning... It invents an ingenious new method of portraying the notoriously untrustworthy realm of memory... [and it] might be the year's most singular visionary experience available at the movies.

[Folman] delivers a cutting edge, brutally honest portrait without the need for political correctness or apathy.