Coraline

The Times“Not yet reviewed”

The Independent“About as suitable for children as Pan's Labyrinth...” It's easy to admire the film's psychedelic surrealism and its marvellous design, but it's not a great deal of fun. And it doesn't just have the ambience of a bad dream, it has the woozy logic of a dream as well...

Guardian“Some scary fun...” This enjoyable creepy animation fantasy in 3D is from Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, and does a similar job on this movie...

National Post“Engaging and inventive...” I imagine it would scare the bejeezus out of Lewis Carroll, but if you can get your head around it not really bothering the protagonist, you should be able to settle back, open your eyes and let it push your buttons...

The Telegraph“Genuinely strange, creepy and arresting...” You marvel that there are still artists of Selick and Gaiman’s ambition at work in the multiplexes...

Channel4 Film“It's a stream of consciousness turned loopy, feral and dangerous...” Its primary purpose is to make you crawl under a popcorn box, or tickle the same part of the brain that likes tiptoeing down the creaky cellar stairs - then bolting up the same..

The First Post“Not yet reviewed”

Little White Lies“Funny, scary and a quirky joy to behold...” Coraline continues Selick’s aesthetic of carnivalesque dread, while pushing its boundaries even further, as the first-ever full-length stop-motion feature to have been conceived and photographed in 3D.

Total Film “See it in 3D. Then sleep with the light on...” Deep, dark and scary on such a surprising, mind-burrowing level, Coraline is a fairytale (read: horror film) that makes us feel like we’re all still frightened children...

New York Times Movies“An exquisitely realized 3-D stop-motion animated feature...” It is certainly exciting, but rather than race through ever noisier set pieces toward a hectic climax in the manner of so much animation aimed at kids, “Coraline” lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling...