Tales of the Night(Les Contes de la nuit)

Los Angeles Times by

In each story the imagery dazzles at first, then becomes somewhat dreary; Ocelot's storytelling never quite matches his visual abilities.

Empire by David Parkinson

A delight from start to finish.

New York Post by Farran Smith Nehme

More likely to play well with older children, due to its split-up story line, Ocelot's creation is like nothing else they are likely to see animating the multiplex.

Slant Magazine by Joseph Jon Lanthier

Michel Ocelot's recent cartoons cleverly advance Lotte Reiniger's prototypical stop-motion technique into the digital age.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

The film feels naive for an audience that's ready for some harder truths.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

The film is intended for family audiences. It is so gentle and whimsical that one wonders if American children, accustomed to the whiz-bang action of most animation, will accept it. Maybe there would be hope for the younger ones - but what will they make of the subtitles?

Boston Globe by Ty Burr

Tales, which (as the title suggests) is an "Arabian Nights"-style omnibus, has similarly eye-bending backgrounds but a creatively monochromatic foreground that comes to feel like a limitation.