| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the most visually inventive films I have ever seen.
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| 100 |
Boston Globe
Its breadth, profundity, and stunningly rendered vision make idealism seem renewed and breathtaking again.
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| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ty Burr
Has the effect of making the average Disney film look like just another toy story.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Amore satisfying use of the medium would be difficult to imagine.
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
A landmark feat of Japanese animation from the acknowledged master of the genre.
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| 90 |
Salon.com
A big movie for the ages, full to the brim with sympathy, imagination and sheer visual delight.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Rarely does any film, animated or otherwise, immerse you in such a vivid landscape and engage your senses so strongly.
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| 88 |
New York Post
A visually stunning film.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
The majestic pageant of images - no sylvan landscape has been this indelibly, dimensionally alive - is inextricably welded to the multifold spiritual / ecological questions about the future that Miyazaki is contemplating.
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| 85 |
TNT RoughCut
Like a lot of anime, it's overlong and gets way too metaphysical at the end, but ultimately, this is a Princess worth worshipping.
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| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A dazzling movie, gorgeous to look at, involving on both emotional and intellectual levels, and often thrilling.
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| 80 |
Newsweek
The beauty and scale of Miyazaki's vision shines through.
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| 80 |
Film.com
Opinionated magic and mayhem
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| 80 |
Variety
Exceedingly imaginative, beautifully realized animated epic adventure.
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| 80 |
Chicago Reader
The film's storytelling and heartfelt pantheism are both impressive.
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| 80 |
Village Voice
Complex, superbly rendered, and wildly eccentric anime-even by Miyazaki's own standards.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
A film for the young at heart and those who still appreciate honor, valor, love, and the earth.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
A rare spectacle on the big screen.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
In theme and technique, it pushes the boundaries of animation and opens up new and imaginative possibilities.
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| 75 |
USA Today
A must-see for animation fans.
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| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor
More thoughtful and varied than the average Hollywood cartoon.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Its imagery is never less than breathtakingly beautiful, and is occasionally truly awesome
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| 70 |
Film.com
Much more mythic and risk-taking than the usual Hollywood product.
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| 70 |
Slate
It's Miyazaki's use of sound--and silence--that takes your breath away
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
While Mononoke is often gorgeous to look at and has a far more sophisticated story than most Japanese animated features, it still feels overlong and dramatically unengaging.
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| 70 |
LA Weekly
A Zeitgeist potpourri, strung with late-20th-century fear and anxiety.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
A thing of beauty and imagination.
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| 50 |
Washington Post
As spectacular as it is dense and as dense as it is colorful and as colorful as it is meaningless and as meaningless as it is long.
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| 40 |
Mr. Showbiz
Wacky, vividly conceived but mundanely executed cartoon fantasy.
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