If Kill It and Leave This Town starts to feel a little self-indulgent, it's forgivably so. While this is an openly personal piece of work, many of its themes have a universal resonance: memories, loss, pain, aging and the general absurdity of life.

Mariusz Wilczyński's animation style strikes an unlikely balance between the childlike and the proficient.

The grim film feels excavated from the subconscious: The coarse illustration style, with its frazzled, stray lines, emphasizes the bleakness of the images.

With some of the most captivating visuals of any film this year, a gritty yet undoubtedly cool style, and thematic weight; the film truly stands out as one of the best animated films of 2020 so far.