Bird vs Soul
Soul has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 7.3/10 for Bird). Soul is the shorter watch at 1h 41m compared with 1h 59m. Soul is the older of the two (2020 against 2024). Both are drama, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Bird
Soul| Bird | Soul | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.3/10 | ★ 8.1/10 |
| Year | 2024 | 2020 |
| Length | 1h 59m | 1h 41m |
| Genres | Drama, Fantasy | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Andrea Arnold | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Kirsty J. Curtis, James Nelson-Joyce, Rhys Yates, Jasmine Jobson, Barry Keoghan | Daveed Diggs, Alice Braga, Wes Studi, Rachel House, Angela Bassett |
Synopsis
Bird
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
Soul
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to…