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Memoir of a Snail Review (2024) — 86% Celluloid Score

Directed by Adam Elliot · 2024 ·

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Answer Summary

Memoir of a Snail (2024) earns a 86% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

Quick Verdict

Averaged from five public sources (critic, audience, Metascore, Letterboxd, IMDb). See how we calculate scores.

86%
Celluloid Score Recommended

Five-source breakdown

95% Critic Score
90% Audience
81 Metascore
★★★★☆ Letterboxd 4.2
7.8 IMDb /10
Runtime
1h 34m
Cast
Sarah Snook , Kodi Smit-McPhee , Jacki Weaver , Eric Bana

🏆 1 award win · 1 nomination — Won Best Animated Film, AACTA Awards 2024

Why this score?

  • Strong critic approval (95% positive).
  • Audiences widely enjoyed it (90%).
  • Metascore signals universal acclaim (81/100).
  • Letterboxd diarists rate it highly (4.2/5).
  • Celluloid Score 86% averages all five public rating sources — our own composite, not a third-party trademark score.

Best for

  • Viewers who want a well-regarded animation, drama, comedy pick
  • Short runtime — easy weeknight watch

Not ideal for

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    Is Memoir of a Snail worth watching?

    Yes — Memoir of a Snail earns a 86% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

    Critics Consensus

    Adam Elliot's painstaking stop-motion is melancholy and marvellous in equal measure — a wickedly funny, deeply humane tale voiced with real feeling by Sarah Snook.

    Celluloid Critics Consensus

    Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

    What is Memoir of a Snail about?

    Separated from her twin brother and shuttled between grim foster homes, a lonely, snail-collecting misfit narrates a life of hoarding and heartbreak — a handmade claymation memoir that finds startling warmth in the bleakest corners of a life.

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