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- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews [Animated]
- Excerpt: The Oscar nominated short animations comprise the most diverse program of the three featuring the obligatory Disney selection, a charming lesson for kids, to an experimental rumination of city life from France, off-beat humor from Iceland, a damning expression of grief and a mind-blowing history of the entire world told in nine minutes.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews [Documentary]
- Excerpt: The short subject documentaries cover a wide range of subjects this year, three reaching into the past while addressing contemporary issues.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews [Live Action]
- Excerpt: The nominated short Live Action films all find a unique perspective to explore their themes. It is of note that the only two films not from the U.S. happen to be from Israel and Palestine.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews [Animated]
- Excerpt: With one notable exception, this animation program is not for kids.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews [Documentary]
- Excerpt: I appreciated these all more or less equally, so my ranking is somewhat arbitrary.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews [Live Action]
- Excerpt: Cops or prejudice or a combination of the two are the connective themes that unite the majority of this year’s nominees.
- [New] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com [Documentary]
- Excerpt: “Hunger Ward,” an unvarnished vérité look at starving Yemeni children and the medics trying to save them, best encapsulates the human experience of pain and resilience that all the nominees embody.
- [New] | MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com [Animated]
- Excerpt: The brilliantly unsettling “Two Distant Strangers” is not only the most important of the nominees but one of the movies of the year, of any length. Its surprises are more brutal than mere plot twists.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com [Animated]
- Excerpt: I don’t see how the astonishing “Opera,” by Erick Oh, doesn’t win the Oscar for Best Animated Short. This is a stupendous achievement, a cartoon clockwork depicting life, the universe, and everything.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight [All]
