Quote:
"[Bao is a] mini-movie about a lonely middle-aged woman in Toronto's Chinatown whose homemade pork dumpling magically comes to life, only to grow up, move out and break his mother's heart. The film is an epic in eight minutes, a story at once ancient and alive, a domestic tragedy worthy of Yasujiro Ozu, albeit with a buoyant Pixar ending."
-- Emily Landau

Source:
Landau, Emily. "The animated life of Domee Shi." Toronto Life, March 2022. (p. 40)