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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Daily Express (UK) (2,141) on 13 Aug 2014

Offers a sprawling, eye-popping psychedelic trip into the moral dilemmas of the digital age…

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By Tim Robey (1,578) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 13 Aug 2014

[Folman's] film is an alluring curio, a protest against the digital frontier which gets stuck with a knotty internal paradox – it starts…

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By Nathanael Smith (3) for The Skinny (809) on 13 Aug 2014

The Congress hinges on big ideas, but falls apart under light scrutiny; your enjoyment of it will depend on how much you care about the actual…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 13 Aug 2014

Epitomised by Max Richter's beautiful but humourless score, The Congress is a mess of fascinating ideas that are drawn and quartered by the…

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By Katherine Mclaughlin (276) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 13 Aug 2014

Ari Folman examines our relationship with cinema and takes a satirical swipe at Hollywood in this stunning and stimulating sci-fi fantasy which…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 13 Aug 2014

The animation work here doesn't look much more interesting than the average laptop screensaver…

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By Stella Papamichael (611) for Digital Spy (1,161) on 11 Aug 2014

This is satire with only a touch of lightness and that's mainly in the dazzling, retro animation which turns Tom Cruise (another of Green's…

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By Siobhan Synnot (412) for Scotsman (1,471) on 10 Aug 2014

Awkward and pretentious but also provocative and pertinent…

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By Dan Jolin (289) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 10 Aug 2014

A fascinating and visually impressive intellectual helter-skelter ride, but the lack of narrative coherence lets down its promising sci-fi…

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By Stephen Kelly (41) for Total Film (3,532) on 10 Aug 2014

Whether visual or thematic, Folman’s bold, eccentric ideas never fail to astound; but they also never truly cohere into a satisfying narrative…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 05 Aug 2014

If you're looking to take a trip but shun chemical agents, this partly animated journey into another dimension may be for you…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 31 Jul 2014

The Congress is where brutal reality meets impossible fantasy, Tex Avery meets Studio Ghibli, and director Ari Folman meets actress Robin Wright,…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 17 Jul 2014

The sensory overload and thematic bludgeoning reach a point of deadening, diminishing returns…

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By Clayton Davis (240) for AwardsCircuit.com (450) on 13 Jul 2014

It's hard to believe that I even understood all its themes, because there were many, and this likely exists as an endeavor that needs to be…

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By Noel Murray (1,901) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 13 Jul 2014

Too much of Ari Folman’s half-animated science-fiction feature The Congress feels just a bit off—but every now and then, the concept, the…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 13 Jul 2014

A wholly original and thoroughly surprising fusion of sensory overload and liberal philosophy bound to confuse and provoke in equal measures…

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By Sam Woolf (118) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 12 Jul 2014

A beautifully drawn curio, The Congress often stacks its industry and tech fears too densely to provide a satisfying film experience or social…

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By Jack Giroux (142) for Film School Rejects (1,198) on 08 Jun 2014

As a performance piece, spectacle, drama, comedy, heady sci-fi, and cautionary tale, it's an across the board success…

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By Ryan Lattanzio (73) for Thompson on Hollywood (89) on 07 Jun 2014

The Congress' widens the possibilities of filmmaking -- and in doing so, is as pro-cinema as it is anti-Hollywood…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 31 Mar 2014

if you're half-distracted all the time, you might be impressed by some of the interesting ideas in this film and be able to ignore what…

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