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pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
78
from 48 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
37
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
57
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
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Read from 48 comments (46 from Metacritic, 2 from TMDB reviews) — 11 of them described how it moves.
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“culminating in an unforgettable emotional climax about defying one's destructive prog”
famfacat · Metacritic ↗
“The final is a bit cliche, but it does make sense in the overall feel and message of the movie, so i give it a pass.”
eded9999 · Metacritic ↗
“a good ending”
jpgranera · Metacritic ↗
“any prejudice I had against this movie was wiped away within the first ten minutes of the film”
sonofaBRUH · Metacritic ↗
“The ending of this movie is satisfying”
MacsMusic · Metacritic ↗
“one of most saddest deaths in animation”
alejandro970 · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 92% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“One of the best films of the year thus far.”
F. X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly · 100
“Heart and tenderness are rare in cartoon movies. But in an age of frenetic children's fare, the new animated adventure The Iron Giant dares to show a lot of both, and it comes up a winner.”
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle · 100
“It's an antidote to complacency. The question is, whom is it trying to wake up?”
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News · 100
“Bird's movie neither panders to children nor sneers at them, and it beautifully, lucidly captures the giddy adventurousness of childhood.”
Cody Clark, Mr. Showbiz · 93
“At times, The Iron Giant is more serene than it needs to be, but it's a lovely and touching daydream.”
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 91
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 91, the watch 78
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“culminating in an unforgettable emotional climax about defying one's destructive prog”
famfacatabout 90–100% inread it ↗
“The final is a bit cliche, but it does make sense in the overall feel and message of the movie, so i give it a pass.”
eded9999about 75–100% inread it ↗
“a good ending”
jpgraneraabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“any prejudice I had against this movie was wiped away within the first ten minutes of the film”
sonofaBRUHabout 0–10% inread it ↗
“You are who you choose to be. It's the 1950s and young Hogarth Hughes happens upon a visitor from space ..... in the form of a giant iron man. Delightful animation adaptation of Ted Hughes' much beloved 1968 novel "The Iron Man". Set during the period of time when Cold War and sci-fi paranoia was prevalent, The Iron Giant embraces these themes and stokes them with lessons of friendship, hatred, death and pertinent reminders of pacifism. Directed by Brad Bird and scripted by Tim McCanilies ”
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“When a ship is caught up in a storm, it's captain finds the most unlikely of saviours - but nobody back in the town of "Rockwell" believes him! Hardly surprising as he claimed to have been rescued by an hundred foot robot with bright yellow eyes. "Hogarth" is an enthusiastic young lad who wants to keep a pet. His mother ("Annie") is having nothing to do with this, especially after one of his candidates manages to just about wreck the diner where she works and turn scrap man "Dean" into "Deana" i”
CinemaSerfread it ↗
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