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55 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100HitfixDrew McWeenyHitfixDrew McWeenyCo-directors Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen have told a very, very small-scale story when you look at what happens in the actual physical world. But in doing so, they've done something very powerful, because they have paid full respect to just how turbulent and important the inner life of a child can be.
- 100VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeIn execution, Pixar’s 15th feature proves to be the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had: a stunningly original concept that will not only delight and entertain the company’s massive worldwide audience, but also promises to forever change the way people think about the way people think, delivering creative fireworks grounded by a wonderfully relatable family story.
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThis is a humane and heart-wrenchingly beautiful film from Docter; even measured alongside Pixar’s numerous great pictures, it stands out as one of the studio’s very best.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyIt’s an audacious concept, and Docter’s imagination, along with those of his numerous collaborators, is adventurous and genially daft enough to put it over.
- 83The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangInside Out is not just fun and breezy, it's also truly weird and wicked smart in its thoroughly heartfelt conclusions.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawIt hasn’t anything as genuinely emotionally devastating as Up, or the subtlety and inspired subversion of Monsters Inc. and the Toy Stories which it certainly resembles at various stages. But it is certainly a terrifically likeable, ebullient and seductive piece of entertainment, taken at full-throttle.
- With most of the story of Inside Out playing out inside Riley’s mind – the child’s eyes providing the emotion-themed characters’ view of the outside world – the film offers ample scope for the creativity of the filmmaking team.
- 80CineVueJoe WalshCineVueJoe WalshAll of this is achieved with the signature levels of emotional intelligence that Pixar are renowned for. The level of detail with which they have created this world is staggering, with each aspect of the psyche carefully thought out.
- 80Time Out LondonDave CalhounTime Out LondonDave CalhounAt times, you ache to put the brakes on the chaos, but still Pixar manages to do with all this what they do best, turning the everyday rough and smooth of childhood experience into a thoughtful, inventive adventure, full of totally appropriate lurid and strange imagery.
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineBoth wonderfully complex and weirdly reductive at the same time—a formula, though, that seems as sound an embodiment of the human brain as any other.