Paul Elliott’s review published on Letterboxd:
Adapted from a book by Polish writer Bruno Schulz and directed by Stephen and Timothy Quay, Street of Crocodiles features a live-action opening before evolving to be a wordless fantasy of wonderous stop-motion animation. The twenty-one-minute film observes a puppet protagonist being unrestrained from his strings and warily commences in roaming the dusty and darkened rooms surrounding him. It draws heavily on a myriad of ideas and often employs a somewhat absurdist approach in its juxtapositioning of images which incites a great deal of ambiguity. Czechoslovakian animator Jan Švankmajer is an evident influence, and the nature of objects such as disfigured dolls are heavily symbolic. The handcrafted and arduously created animation breathtakingly shifts fluidly through an opaque and claustrophobic macrocosm. This is a remarkable piece of work.