“Robot Dreams” is a heartfelt portrait of loneliness, connection and loyalty.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2024

Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is imaginative, bittersweet, and unrelentingly, almost unbearably, twee.

Full Review | Jun 13, 2024

It leaves a lot of room for interpretation – depending on how you come to it, you could read Dog and Robot’s relationship as platonic or romantic, straight or queer – but the takeaway is all tenderness.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2024

Robot Dreams excels due to its ability to marry magical realism with a grounded emotional core. The story of Dog and Robot is impossibly poignant as we yearn for the two to reunite, their happiness infectious.

Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jun 13, 2024

Despite the weighty issues the film deals with, Robot Dreams is a delight.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2024

There are not enough words to describe how this film seared and fed my soul and spirit. Pablo Berger's animated love letter to Sara Varon and New York City is more than just a film - it's magic

Full Review | Jun 12, 2024

It’s a relationship allegory where the allegory part is more resonant than the story itself and the whole thing struck me as rather ... mild.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 11, 2024

When it comes to animated stories of seemingly unlikely friends bonding, consider writer-director Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams to now be up there alongside outstanding films like The Iron Giant.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jun 7, 2024

The final scenes of this movie are wonderfully bittersweet. They seem to say that good memories with someone are worth cherishing, even as we may find new loves, friends and connections.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2024

In Robot Dreams, the bold clarity of the line drawings matches the clean simplicity of the plot — which, perhaps ironically, fires our imaginations even further.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2024

Robot Dreams feels real and surreal, familiar and bizarre, resulting in unexpected authenticity.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jun 6, 2024

Berger’s film is rich, genuine and achingly real. Never mind this Manhattan’s menagerie -- Robot Dreams is a movie that is all too human.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2024

Younger audience members should enjoy the characters and the animation in Robot Dreams, but there is a depth to the story that will strike adults differently.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2024

Writer-director Pablo Berger’s superb animation about a lonely '80s-era dog and his robot friend hits every mark, offering a family-friendly film with more emotional gravitas than can be rightly expected.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jun 5, 2024

Spanish director Pablo Berger has made a movie that feels, in the best way, like the last day of summer: radiant, bittersweet, redolent of memories in the making.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2024

Robot Dreams warms your soul as a beautifully animated reminder of friendship's value and the deep loss felt in its absence. Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger is sublime in a dialogue-free adventure that whisks you back to a vibrant early '80s New York City.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 4, 2024

A totally delightful and charming take on the importance of friendship, ROBOT DREAMS also explores the pain and loneliness when those relationships no longer exist.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2024

It’s that rare film which moviegoers will crave to watch again and again --- and tell their friends about.

Full Review | Jun 4, 2024

Robot Dreams is a gem of a movie that is best appreciated by viewers who are open to watching an animated feature film with no dialogue. This is a charming and often emotionally moving story about a dog, a robot, and what happens to their friendship.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2024

Adapted from the beloved graphic novel of the same name, but injected with a New York ambiance, Robot Dreams delivers one of the most humanistic depictions of memories and loss through a robot and dog’s love story.

Full Review | Jun 3, 2024