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100Fabulous for many reasons. Most important, this movie is Chiyoko's story, not an anime adventure. It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply.
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91Deftly weaves history, film and memory into an imaginative meditation on why the movies become a part of our lives.
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80Satoshi innovates not by pushing off into more extreme realms of adolescent fantasy, but by using all the resources of animation to tell complex dramatic stories, resources that in his hands seem almost limitless.
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80Millennium Actress fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before.
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80To watch Millennium Actress is to witness one cinematic medium celebrating another, an expression of movie love that is wonderfully eccentric and deeply affecting.
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75Although we never feel any true connection to the enigmatic actress, there's no denying the inventiveness of Kon's homage to the possibilities of cinema.
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75It manages to be both kinetic and dream-like at the same time -- "Run Lola Run" by way of David Lynch.
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There isn't a film filled with richer, more colorfully imaginative images currently playing in theaters.
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75The movie's narrative can be taxingly ornate, but there's something beautiful about its metaphorical conflation of politics and glamour, the real and the fictional.
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70Past and present, reality and fiction blend seamlessly into each other in Satoshi Kon's dream-like animated drama.
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70Animated in much the same style as "Perfect Blue," but with greater depth and a more elaborate sense of playfulness, Millennium Actress is a visual feast, but also a mental gymnastics routine.
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67Millennium Actress has more layers to it than the proverbial onion, but Kon’s sure hand keeps things moving right along and into the next historical period.
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Millennium Actress is a quest for beauty and truth that is as wonderful to look at as it is gruelling to contemplate.
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50Contains some brilliant invention between duller stretches.
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Flashbacks integrate with scenes from her films, and it becomes difficult to discern between the two -- cinema is equated with memory. Unfortunately, the trippy disorientation ultimately devolves into outright confusion.