Critic Reviews

It is a horror/fantasy that puts every bit of its imagination on the screen and constantly impresses with its DIY spectacle.

The story is simple, and the narrative still manages to be muddled here and there, especially towards the end. But Moon Garden is a dazzling use of various effects and animation techniques to tell a child’s-eye-view story of purgatory, or something awfully close to it.

Only after Emma’s circumstances get worse — the poor dear is knocked comatose — do things onscreen improve.