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Robot Dreams Is a Good Robot Movie and a Great New York Movie
Pablo Berger’s Oscar-nominated animated fable is an enchanting tale of friendship against a changing city.
In Robot Dreams, the bold clarity of the line drawings matches the clean simplicity of the plot — which, perhaps ironically, fires our imaginations even further. But the beach is now closed and gated until the following summer, and despite many efforts, Dog can’t reach Robot, who lies there in the sand, fantasizing of ways that they might be reunited. The always awkward Dog finds another companion — a cool and confident moped-riding Duck in Air Jordans and sunglasses — while Robot has encounters with the rest of the world that are sometimes dreams, sometimes real.
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