Pixar's Wall-E Proves Its Mettle

Stunning animation, an endearing love story, and a compelling look at mankind’s future make Pixar’s Wall-E one of the best films of the year, critics agree. “This is getting to sound like a broken record: Pixar Animation Studios has just topped itself. Again,” Kirk Honeycutt writes in the Hollywood Reporter. This movie is on the must-see list for kids and adults alike, critics say.

The story of the last robot left on a deserted Earth is “a love letter to the possibilities of the movie medium and a dazzling demonstration of how computers can create a photorealistic world,” writes Joe Morgenstern in the Wall Street Journal. “Some day, there will be college courses devoted to this movie,” Lou Lumenick writes in the New York Post. (More movie review stories.)