Stopmotion
Front Row Filmed Entertainment | Release Date: February 23, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Time OutPhil de SemlyenFeb 28, 2024
Stopmotion feels born out of the sheer mental challenge of being trapped in a room with macabre creations that come to life over weeks of painstaking labour. Read full review
80
Film ThreatPerry NortonFeb 23, 2024
This is an atmospheric and beautifully crafted horror film, with its brains firmly on the inside. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisFeb 22, 2024
The director and animator Robert Morgan has crafted a narratively slender, visually sophisticated first feature. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineMatt DonatoFeb 20, 2024
Morgan’s feature debut is as stunning, diabolical and boundary-pushing an emergence as any filmmaker could hope to achieve. Read full review
70
IGNKatie RifeMay 31, 2024
The setup is forgettable, but Stopmotion builds to a grotesque and darkly beautiful finale that’s a great showcase for stop-motion animator Robert Morgan. Read full review
70
ColliderChase HutchinsonFeb 22, 2024
Stopmotion is a one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted horror film with a great performance from Aisling Franciosi. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerFeb 22, 2024
It's chilling and tragic in equal measures. Read full review
63
LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenFeb 23, 2024
The movie’s dark magic occurs when the stop-motion story and the narrative proper bleed into each other (often literally), with goopy puppets invading Ella’s space while she—perhaps psychologically, perhaps in reality—finds herself trapped in theirs. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comPeter SobczynskiFeb 23, 2024
In “Stopmotion,” the debut feature from Robert Morgan, the medium—the painstaking and time-consuming process of stop-motion animation—may be unusual but the resulting film, an undeniably grisly but ultimately tedious tiptoe through the genre tropes, certainly is. This is all the more frustrating because in the middle of it all is a performance by Aisling Fransciosi that is so strong and committed that viewers will wish that the rest of the film had made the same kind of effort that she clearly did. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyFeb 22, 2024
Masterful as he is at creating the stuff of nightmares, Morgan (as well as co-writer Robin King) is much less assured handling the character actions, psychology and dialogue outside his heroine’s fevered psyche. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineSteven ScaifeFeb 19, 2024
The film falters when it attempts to mold its best instincts into a discernible narrative shape. Read full review
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