I think Jacques Tati would have loved WALL•E, and that’s about the highest compliment I can think to give this marvelously funny, touching, and visionary Pixar film. Tati would have appreciated the visual genuis of its humor, the way in which it develops meaningful and endearing characters with nary a word of dialogue, and the undeniably important lesson it imparts about the perils of human alienation that can accompany heavy reliance on modern technology. The film’s squat little robot is more expressive and memorable than I though a rattling metal contraption could be, and the manner in which he anchors this computer-animated fable about loneliness, emotional connection, and the sad fact that we’re destroying our planet takes it directly past the best of movie pleasures and right into the sublime. (Hollywood Jewel 16, Waco, TX)