Cryptozoo

Released Aug 20, 2021

1 hr. 35 min.

Fantasy

Animation

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Visionary comic book writer/artist/filmmaker Dash Shaw's vibrant, fantastical animated feature follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.

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Although its visual overstimulation threatens to derail its themes, Cryptozoo is an ambitious and unique critique of capitalistic values.

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Lauren Gray

Angeliki Papoulia

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Louisa Krause

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Alex Karpovsky

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Leslie Felperin

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Utterly bizarre in the best possible way, this lovingly handmade animated feature by writer-director Dash Shaw (originally a comic book/graphic novelist) isn't like anything you've seen before.

Rated: 4/5

Oct 19, 2021

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Amy Nicholson

FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)

Its ugliness I find to be deliberate, and there are beautiful moments... [Cryptozoo] is a tiny bit of a mess, but I admired a lot of it.

Aug 21, 2021

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

An unusually timid animated fantasy that looks like outsider art, but often moves and sounds like bad pulp fiction.

Rated: 2/4

Aug 20, 2021

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Manuel São Bento

MSB Reviews

Cryptozoo is undoubtedly one of the most shockingly violent 2D animated movies I’ve ever seen… and I write this both as a compliment and a disclaimer to sensitive viewers.

Rated: C+

Jul 24, 2023

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Mitchell Beaupre

Awards Radar

It’s this moral conundrum where Cryptozoo finds its most resonance, as it not only challenges the oppressiveness of those who fear and attack Others, but also the self-serving oppression enacted by supposed allies who think they know what’s right.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 22, 2022

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Erick Estrada

Cinegarage

The plotlines are so fleeting and light that everything gets diluted, and it smells like XXI Century New Age. [Full review in Spanish]

Aug 11, 2022

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Synopsis

Visionary comic book writer/artist/filmmaker Dash Shaw's vibrant, fantastical animated feature follows cryptozookeepers through a richly-drawn hallucinatory world as they struggle to capture a baku (a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature) and begin to wonder if they should display these rare beasts in the confines of a zoo, or if these mythical creatures should remain hidden and unknown.

Director: Dash Shaw
Executive Producer: Dexter Braff, Gail Flannigan, Drew Sykes
Screenwriter: Dash Shaw
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Fit Via Vi Film Productions, Washington Square Films
Genre: Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 20, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 20, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $32.3K

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