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Zippy Frames

Zippy Frames is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Amarsanaa Battulga, Olivia Popp, Vassilis Kroustallis.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
80/100
Lesbian Space Princess (2025) Vassilis Kroustallis A witty and fast-paced satire of the need for women's empowerment (even after the #metoo movement)
Posted Jun 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Apocalypsis (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis Apocalypsis has some impressive sequences, its mission is commendable and its implementation capable enough.
Posted Jun 17, 2024  Edit critic review
85/100
Flow (2024) Vassilis Kroustallis 'Flow' feels like a real-time exposure to the primal instinct of survival, need, and need for a community build. One of the early, standout animation features of the year
Posted May 27, 2024  Edit critic review
80/100
Art College 1994 (2023) Vassilis Kroustallis Anarchically charming, cleverly empathetic, and overwhelmingly relatable.
Posted May 03, 2024  Edit critic review
The Missing (2023) Olivia Popp Papa’s inventive use of form is one of the film’s successes, where the removal of body parts can be experienced by the viewer quite viscerally — for him, the loss is not metaphorical.
Posted Feb 06, 2024  Edit critic review
75/100
White Plastic Sky (2023) Vassilis Kroustallis Equally bleak and visually enchanting, 'White Plastic Sky' is instrumental in presenting a couple in crisis -mirrored in an overwhelming global malaise.
Posted Jun 02, 2023  Edit critic review
70/100
Oink (2022) Vassilis Kroustallis Luminescent, free-floating, and with the right portion of emotional investment.
Posted Apr 15, 2023  Edit critic review
80/100
Suzume (2022) Vassilis Kroustallis A challenging portrait of a young woman in need of getting her priorities straight
Posted Apr 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) Vassilis Kroustallis A sensitively made autumnal stop-motion film sonata.
Posted Dec 28, 2022  Edit critic review
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) Vassilis Kroustallis The hybrid live-action/animated film is still an integrated experience; a story told many times before, but here given fresh wings and a shell to work upon.
Posted Dec 28, 2022  Edit critic review
My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) Vassilis Kroustallis This is an admirably unequivocal, frank, and totally cherished feminist animation work
Posted Dec 28, 2022  Edit critic review
70/100
Master (2022) Vassilis Kroustallis The 'Master' narrative unfolding of the racial relations looks more pessimistic than the characters' own strength Yet, the film remains an energetic reworking of a question that contemporary films have put forward, with compelling performances.
Posted Feb 03, 2022  Edit critic review
My Sunny Maad (2021) Vassilis Kroustallis My Sunny Maad is a keen, penetrating observation of a woman who needs to save her idea of a relationship while at the same time encouraging freedom of choice for all the others. A well-crafted and almost alarming film
Posted Dec 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Flee (2021) Vassilis Kroustallis 'Flee' is a film that admirably knits its necessary episodic structure together; it will treat its main character with care but also inquisitive curiosity to reveal the layers behind his narration.
Posted Dec 23, 2021  Edit critic review
Slučajna raskoš prozirnog vodenog rebusa (2020) Vassilis Kroustallis Far away from employing a traditional storytelling device, Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus feels both contingent and orchestrated
Posted Feb 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Archipel (2021) Vassilis Kroustallis Archipel's stream-of-consciousness narrative can be almost cryptic at times, but it is a enriching experience to watch.
Posted Feb 11, 2021  Edit critic review
Wolfwalkers (2020) Vassilis Kroustallis the film stands out as a really solid dramatic piece which follows its characters' trajectory without making them superheroes or freaks in the process.
Posted Nov 12, 2020  Edit critic review
Glitch in the Grid (2010) Vassilis Kroustallis What registers in Glitch In The Grid is a feeling of 21st century numbness
Posted Sep 12, 2020  Edit critic review
Moon Man (2012) Vassilis Kroustallis Lack of drama in Moon Man cannot compensate for fine imagery. Children may be entertained, but there are things that could be developed (one of them being the dictatorial rule exercised) to keep the parents alert as well.
Posted May 01, 2020  Edit critic review
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis By confining itself to a certain slice of life, it becomes a solid and considerate effort, almost soothing in its treatment of the celebrated director's inner troubles and external obstacles. Definitely a film to watch.
Posted Dec 16, 2019  Edit critic review
I Lost My Body (2019) Vassilis Kroustallis Unpretentious in its (laborious) visual technique and solid in its ethereal concerns, I Lost My Body is one of the best animated feature films of the year.
Posted Dec 11, 2019  Edit critic review
Klaus (2019) Vassilis Kroustallis Its tempo is uneven, and not all characters convincing, yet Klaus relies mostly on storytelling and a back-to-basics visual style to achieve its aim rather than marketing sensibilities.
Posted Dec 06, 2019  Edit critic review
The Prince's Voyage (Le Voyage du Prince) (2019) Vassilis Kroustallis This is a welcome pastiche of themes reworked but leading to a still cinematically potent work, told with precision and an overwhelming thirst for Utopian artistic freedom.
Posted Oct 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Negative Space (2017) Vassilis Kroustallis Adept and emotionally well-packed
Posted Aug 04, 2019  Edit critic review
Ville Neuve (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis Ville Neuve is a sensitive film which uses its low-key aesthetics in its favour; it sometimes overexposes a fait accompli desperation, which hinders the film's own stated, palpable claim for a breath of fresh air.
Posted Jul 03, 2019  Edit critic review
Away (2019) Vassilis Kroustallis Away is economical in its timing (both in overall duration, and in its individual scenes), ambitious in its widescreen format, and grand in its archetypal choice of themes and norms. Deserves to be widely seen.
Posted Jun 20, 2019  Edit critic review
The Tragedy of Man (2011) Vassilis Kroustallis This animated existential-philosophical melange is not without its flaws (close imitation of the Faust being one), yet it shows respect, care and genuine narrative and visual consideration for a subject-matter few would dare to tackle.
Posted Mar 20, 2019  Edit critic review
Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis It's a post-modern heist film, full of references and short of surprises.
Posted Mar 18, 2019  Edit critic review
Seder-Masochism (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis Seder-Masochism is an entertainingly bold animated critique of things you'd better not left unexamined
Posted Jan 25, 2019  Edit critic review
Tito and the Birds (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis A welcome entry into the string of recent Brazilian animation successes, Tito and The Birds combines breathtaking expressionism with a call for social action and a narrative which prioritizes team effort scenes than character fine-tuning
Posted Jan 20, 2019  Edit critic review
The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales... (2017) Vassilis Kroustallis The film definitely plays with the fairytale genre conventions (which won't subvert), and offers a much needed antidote to the hyper-programmed visual and narrative tricks of more mainstream contemporary animation.
Posted Jan 10, 2019  Edit critic review
Mirai no Mirai (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis A gentle family comedy of manners, which really takes off at the film's final reels. Without being groundbreaking, it still provides a wormhole to look further away than your own courtyard.
Posted Jan 10, 2019  Edit critic review
Seoul Station (2016) Vassilis Kroustallis Yeon Sang-ho's third feature is no less fierce and violent as his The King of Pigs and The Fake efforts, and wholeheartedly artistic at the same time.
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
Cafard (2015) Vassilis Kroustallis Working more like a slow burner than a series of powerful dramatic confrontations, the film invests a lot to an old-fashioned sense of moral values and male bonding.
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
Ethel & Ernest (2016) Vassilis Kroustallis Ethel and Ernest feels unashamedly nostalgic, carefully researched and with a heart.
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
Tehran Taboo (2017) Vassilis Kroustallis This is an animated film made for adults, which perfectly captures dilemmas and character decisions without the need to become graphic (unless when really needed).
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
The Oddsockeaters (2016) Vassilis Kroustallis With an eye-popping color palette, a memorable character design, and the need for a family which appears in the most unlikely gang places, The Oddsockeaters is a welcome, if narratively uneven, entry in the European feature animation niche.
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
On Happiness Road (2017) Vassilis Kroustallis The handling of national culture subtleties, and what makes a child and a woman at home gives the film On Happiness Road its distinct feel of contemporaneity, even more satisfyingly than its implied politics angle
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
Dilili in Paris (2018) Vassilis Kroustallis Dilili in Paris won't completely fit the bill for its expressed modernist purpose, but children and adults would enjoy it for its staunch defence of just causes and its more than loveable main character.
Posted Jan 08, 2019  Edit critic review
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