Israeli director Ari Folman creates a trippy, half-animated film that posits a world where movie studios eventually take over the world, allowing us to consume, literally, our entertainment.

The Wright character in “The Congress” is an actress with a troubled career. She made bad choices in movies and men, as Keitel bluntly tells her. She was difficult on the set.

The sci-fi parable "The Congress" is an odd, two-headed thing. On the one hand, director Ari Folman's down-the-rabbit-hole mind trip is a film of admirable ambition and thrilling cinematic derring-do.

Once it does, though, its emptiness is exposed. “The Congress” is loosely inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s 1971 novel, “The Futurological Congress.” ...

Echoing the meta device of “Being John Malkovich,” Folman’s movie revolves around an actor playing a fictionalized version of herself — and in the process, delivering an incredibly ...

Grade: A “The Congress” is available on several video-on-demand platforms starting today. It opens theatrically in Los Angeles and in New York on September 5.

Where that movie used animation for a serious memoir about the filmmaker’s wartime experiences, this one pairs the story of an aging actress (Robin Wright, playing herself) with a riff on ...

It is, without a doubt, the most 2023-ass movie of 2013. The Congress is available to stream on Hulu.

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The Wright character in “The Congress” is an actress with a troubled career. She made bad choices in movies and men, as Keitel bluntly tells her. She was difficult on the set.