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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungThe Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungAn exceptional animated feature from Spain, Wrinkles imaginatively and sensitively explore one of the major issues confronting most of the developed world: how to look after senior citizens in a rapidly aging population.
- 100Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyIgnacio Ferreras's traditionally animated Wrinkles is a beautiful, subtle horror movie about the rigors of old age, made all the more horrifying because it will happen to all of us fortunate enough to live a long life.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis movie has the same desolate quality as Philip Larkin's poem The Building, and yet it is tender and lovable, too.
- Its shuffling pace and basic animation all add to the heartbreak as the protagonists slowly unravel, even as they fight to keep a grip.
- 80VarietyJonathan HollandVarietyJonathan HollandAlthough nothing here quite matches the moving, life-in-five-minutes montage in Pixar’s “Up,” one swooping flashback sequence comes very close.
- 80New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFerreras is similarly frank, but heavy doses of humor and empathy, along with gorgeous hand-drawn animation, keep things from getting too morbid.
- 75Slant MagazineWes GreeneSlant MagazineWes GreeneIn its visionary dream and flashback sequences, the film becomes a comment on the rapidly diminished state of traditional animation.
- 75New York PostSara StewartNew York PostSara StewartThe film doesn’t wallow in grief; it’s a thoughtful and nuanced portrait of a stage of life we often choose not to see.
- 60EmpireAngie ErrigoEmpireAngie ErrigoAn unsparing look at the winter of life, salted with humour and emotion.