Look Back
Reception

Look Back (2024)

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8.1
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 204,514 votes
8.1/10 180,150 votes Synced 2026-09-15
7.8/10 23,605 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 8.1/10 93 votes Synced 2026-09-02
Critics 9.0/10 Synced 2026-09-02
Audience 9.8/10 Synced 2026-07-18
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8.2/10 666 votes Synced 2026-09-18

External reviews

Robbie Collin · The Telegraph 100.00/100.00

There’s a haiku-like purity to it: Look Back is as neat and yet also as overflowing as the four-panel strips in which its leads once diligently honed their craft. And if something so beautiful also feels too brief – well, that may be the idea.

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Kimberley Jones · Austin Chronicle 78.00/100.00

If there’s a complaint to be made about Look Back, it’s that there’s not enough of it: Adapted from Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s one-shot manga of the same name, the story it tells is purposefully contained.

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Joshua Fox · Screen Rant 100.00/100.00

Whether it’s a big, emotional scene or something comparatively more low key, the animation always does a great job of capturing the humanity of the cast and story, making an already great story even better to go through.

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David Ehrlich · IndieWire 83.00/100.00

This lilting tale’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it brevity proves inseparable from the lasting power of its punch-to-the-gut impact.

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Elijah Gonzalez · The A.V. Club 91.00/100.00

All of this beautiful animation intrinsically drives at why people create in the first place, highlighting both the life-affirming and deeply messy realities of making manga.

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Autumn Wright · Paste Magazine 95.00/100.00

Look Back is a requiem for art lost to violence, to circumstance, to conformity. It is also an argument to create.

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