A Cat in Paris (2010)

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, A Cat in Paris holds an approval rating of 83% based on 64 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "A Cat in Paris depicts a stylish, imaginative world with a wonderful soundtrack and Hitchcockian overtones." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 63 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

Prior to the Oscar nomination, the film was little-seen in the United States, although it had its world premiere for the first time to the public as the grand opening matinee of an international children’s competition in the Championship Finals category for a young audience during the opening night of the Saint-Quentin Ciné-Jeune Film Festival’s Grand Opening Celebration’s Fanfare Highlights Showcase event as a special Ciné-Jeune headliner, becoming the first ever animated film in history to open the Saint-Quentin symposium and the showcase's "biggest opening night event in decades". The New York Times called it "a gorgeous hand-drawn feature that is one of the highlights of this festival. ... Without being too frightening, it projects a sense of danger, both physical and emotional, that is more engaging than the high-pitched thrills of the domestic films."

Web Behrens of Time Out Chicago gave the film four out of five stars, describing how "this cartoon noir distills Hitchcock into 64 brisk minutes for middle-schoolers and up"; the review elaborated that the film "announces its retro visual style with a dynamic title sequence that zips across the screen, bursting with Saul Bass-influenced dynamism."