Coraline

Name: Coraline
Director: Henry Selick
Released: 2009

3.57

Synopsis

A young girl discovers an idealized parallel universe behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that it contains a sinister secret.

100
Entertainment Weekly
This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness.
100
Charlotte Observer
Selick's fantastical adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel will be too dazzlingly rich for many; it'll be like "caviare to the general," as Hamlet said of a complex play enacted for a public with lazy minds.
90
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a marvelous family story, tapping into all sorts of childhood dreams and nightmares involving Mommy, monsters and heroic youngsters. Selick's imaginative sets and puppets are in perfect pitch with Gaiman's fantasy.
88
Chicago Tribune
It pulls audiences into a meticulously detailed universe, familiar in many respects, wacked and menacing in many others.
80
Variety
This eccentric and deliriously inventive fantasy finds stop-motion auteur Henry Selick scaling new heights of ghoulish whimsy, buoyed by a haunting score that works its own macabre magic.
80
Village Voice
Coraline Jones isn't the pluckiest or most ingratiating sprite ever to take center stage in a children's film, and her (mis)adventures aren't especially novel, but Coraline is still a consistent splendor to behold.
78
Austin Chronicle
Stays remarkably true to a kid's-eye perspective and dormant fears.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
This is a gloomy film with weird characters doing nasty things. I've heard of eating chocolate-covered insects, but not when they're alive.