Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
On the scale of inventiveness, "Inside Out" will be hard to top this year. As so often with Pixar, you feel that you are visiting a laboratory crossed with a rainbow.

Name : Maricar Estrella / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Directors Pete Docter ( Monsters, Inc .; Up) and Ronnie del Carmen ( Dug's Special Mission) have created a masterful study of family dynamics. Like the Oscar-winning Up, Inside Out takes great care in weaving complex ideas into a children's tale.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The magnificent head trip that is Inside Out does more than take us inside a young girl's mind. It also restores Pixar's lost magic.

Name : Christy Lemire / Alias : ChristyLemire.com
This is a movie that dares to explore existential crises, in the middle of the summer, in an animated movie that's aimed at the whole family

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The challenge here involves maintaining a believable humanity while also making an entertaining case that humanity is impossible without the proper emotional configuration. And in meeting that challenge, the movie keeps surprising and delighting you.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Perhaps Pixar will never again reach the heights of its remarkable string of masterworks, "Wall.E," "Ratatouille" and "Up." The best of "Inside Out" comes close.

Name : Andrew Lapin / Alias : NPR
Inside Out isn't just a sign of renewed youth from Pixar. It's the reason Pixar exists.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Inside Out" is uplifting and magical, impeccably crafted and cinematically arresting, emotional and humorous beyond measure.

Name : Roger Moore / Alias : Orlando Sentinel
Lawyer-turned-screenwriter Dylan Schaffer's script is an unhappy combination of genres, tones, too many dead stretches of people in cars and inept dialogue.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
Inside Out is imaginative and ambitious, even if it sometimes feels a bit manically overstuffed. And it's definitely a big step up from some recent Pixar films, such as Cars 2 and Monsters University.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Loyalties are tested and Scorsese ripped off until audiences may feel as if they're in a movie deathlock.

Name : Andrew Schenker / Alias : Time Out
As bloated as its star's pectoral muscles and as lastingly resonant as any random episode of SmackDown.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Inside Out is the first psychological thriller that's fun for the whole family. Really psychological. And really fun.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
If many of the script's circumstances seem a bit too convenient, Mandelberg's direction provides a cavalier "what next?" verve that invites incongruity.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Pixar stands alone, and "Inside Out" shows you why.

Name : Gail Pennington / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The best animated movies are made as much for the grown-ups who will accompany the children as for the kids themselves. That's certainly true of "Inside Out" .

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
You want to see this movie. You need to see this movie. Because "Inside Out" is terrific, a mind-bending concept turned into a brilliant film, a return to form for Pixar not just in terms of quality but in taking risks - risks that pay off.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
This teeming, tear-duct-draining, exhaustingly inventive, surreal animated comedy is going to be a new pop-culture touchstone. In all kinds of ways it's a mind-opener.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Only Pixar could turn a metaphor into a heart-tugging story about preteen growing pains. Absolutely brilliant.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
A work of nifty craftsmanship and considerable complexity beneath its unassuming surface.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Inside Out, the latest Disney-Pixar coproduction, feels like a clever educational short stretched to feature length.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
As funny, stirring, unpredictable, exciting and riotously beautiful as it is profound.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
"Inside Out" movingly but casually plays with our emotions, like a baby walking her fingers across a parent's face; it leaves you changed, entertained, nostalgic, dazzled.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
"Inside Out" is about the passing of childhood ritual, its most bittersweet moments the ones glimpsed in a rear-view mirror, as it reminds the unfaithful: Remember when you loved that? When you lived for this? Until you didn't anymore?

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Pixar's 15th feature proves to be the greatest idea the toon studio has ever had . promises to forever change the way people think about the way people think, delivering creative fireworks grounded by a wonderfully relatable family story.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
This is heady stuff - a more natural fit for a black-and-white Bergman than a kiddie caper.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
It's good to get your emotions in check before watching the exquisite Inside Out. You're bound to feel the whole bunch watching a child's mind come alive in the most imaginative ways.

Name : Mary F. Pols / Alias : TIME Magazine
What makes the movie so rich and enlightening, even for an adult well acquainted with their own blue periods, is the depiction of emotions not as at war with each other but rather in a constant juggling act to keep their human going.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Has moments that are as emotionally gutting as anything I've seen in a Pixar film. At the same time, I was surprised at how fleeting the experience felt.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
"Inside Out" is an absolute delight - funny and charming, fast-moving and full of surprises. It is also a defense of sorrow, an argument for the necessity of melancholy dressed in the bright colors of entertainment.

Name : Eric Hynes / Alias : Village Voice
A scattershot throwback that steals elements from seedy '70s character studies, disreputable '80s vigilante flicks, even street-tough allegories from the '30s, Inside Out also dances to the confidently unhurried beat of its own drum.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
It is a joy for audiences seeking entertainment, an ingenious work of craft for those paying close attention, and a wallop of feeling that's still too rare coming from a cartoon.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
It's hard to believe that anyone will make a film more ambitious and more fully realized this year than "Inside Out." Let the talk of a best picture Oscar win begin now.

Name : Nancy Churnin / Alias : Dallas Morning News
Buddy films have always been about balancing opposite urges. Here the balance mirrors not only what's needed for great art, but also for mental and spiritual healing.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
This adventurous outing manages the great Pixar trick of operating on two levels-captivating fun for kids, disarming smarts for adults-that sets the studio apart.

Name : Jake Coyle / Alias : Associated Press
What's most refreshing about "Inside Out" is its inversion of the standard prescriptions of big-budget animation: It's ultimately about the importance of embracing sadness.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Inside Out is the best American-produced animated film we have seen in many summers and deserves to be recognized as such.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
Not since Up, has the studio taken on the gnarliness of being human and made it so visually delightful and emotionally resonant.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
Shooting for stoic, Mr. Levesque only delivers inert. And the plot devolves into a tangle of dithering story lines.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
A great blend of thoughtfulness and understanding went into "Inside Out," and the outcome will likely, again, raise the bar for other studios trying to keep up.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
A nonsensical, thickly plotted gumbo.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
Welcome back, Pixar. You were sorely missed.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
In the course of the whole year, there will probably be no American movie so concerned with looking inside, and so interested in the components of a meaningful life, as "Inside Out."

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Pixar's tour of an 11-year-old girl's head is a flat-out masterpiece that proves live action doesn't have dibs on cinematic art. Oh, did I say it was funny? It is, uproariously so, when you're not brushing away a tear.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Uncle Walt knew what he was talking about with "For every smile, a tear." With "Inside Out," the brilliant keepers of his legacy prove that it's not only good for business but also essential for the soul.

Name : Dana Stevens / Alias : Slate
Only in the medium of animation could a conceit as elaborate as Inside Out's be dramatized, and only animation this well-designed and executed could bring such a story so vibrantly to life.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
It's a totally satisfying adventure with lot of surprising twists, and one of the best emotional payoffs in the Pixar canon.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
Kids will be engaged, but it's the older viewers - people who have lived and felt a little longer than 11-year-olds - who will most appreciate this marvelous, ingenious work of art.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It's not just a brilliant idea, but maybe the most conceptually daring movie the Bay Area animation house has ever produced. And that's really saying something, what with WALL-E on the books.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
A movie that's so smart and psychologically clever, it may leave little ones scratching their heads wondering why their parents are laughing so hard and getting so choked up.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Whatever brainstorm led the Pixar folks to "Inside Out," they've created the most extraordinary film of the year.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
It's all very Freudian, or Jungian, or whatever, and little kids may get lost, but there's real verve in the animation and wit in the byplay.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
At times, you ache to put the brakes on the chaos, but still Pixar manages to do what it does best, turning the everyday rough and smooth of childhood experience into a thoughtful, inventive adventure.