Foxx and Fey have a nicely bickering rapport...

Its portrayal of jazz is not only accurate in terms of its soundtrack of classic cuts and depiction of performance (...) but also its wider cultural context.

...the jazz scenes (...) are some of the most glorious and transcendent in Pixar history.

Peak Pixar, it’ll feed your soul.

...a treat for the eyes.

It’s a free-jazz fantasia about a sad and lonely musician, with globules of Frank Capra, 60s psychedelia, 80s body-swap and an old-fashioned stairway to heaven that put me in mind of Pressburger and Powell.

...one of the best Pixar movies in years...