3 stars out of 4 -- Anderson has playfully crafted a piece consisting solely of her narration and interpretable visuals like rain on a windshield or a snowy road (and a few home movies). She also captures a sense of life's unpredictability...

This film's disjointed structure and emotional reticence would make a better album than a movie. An album also doesn't demand an engaging overall story to hold our attention, but many of the scenes in this fairly short film had me nodding off. Full Review

The film is often notable for Anderson's honesty. Full Review

Rating: 4/5 -- Language becomes the great unifier in Heart of a Dog. Anderson's nimble words cascade together, gathering momentum and meaning through jarring edits and clashes of imagery. Full Review

With this film, [director Laurie Anderson] proves herself to be a capable director. Full Review

Rating: 3/5 -- Nothing if not original, this is almost certainly the only movie about a terrier that cites the writing of Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard, the painting of Goya and the wisdom of Jewish grandmothers. Full Review

4 stars out of 5 -- Animation and Super 8 footage lend personal texture to the documentary’s dreamy, healing fragments, with Anderson’s soothing narration providing poetic perspective on childhood trauma, the nature of storytelling, the transience of life and the release of love.