IndieWire May 16, 2026 • 15:07

‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: A Married Couple Adopt a Robot Copy of Their Dead Son in Hirokazu Koreeda’s Emotionally Stilted Riff on ‘A.I.’ - IndieWire

By David Ehrlich

‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: A Married Couple Adopt a Robot Copy of Their Dead Son in Hirokazu Koreeda’s Emotionally Stilted Riff on ‘A.I.’ - IndieWire

A married couple adopts a robot copy of their dead son in sweet but stunted grief drama 'Sheep in the Box' from Hirokazu Koreeda.

A master sentimentalist like Hirokazu Koreeda riffing on a movie as soul-obliterating as Steven Spielberg’s “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” sounds like a surefire recipe for the tear-jerker of the yea… [+6861 chars]

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