Miyazaki is one of world cinema's most wondrously gifted artists and storytellers.
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09/23/02
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Spirited Away (2002)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:150
Rotten:4
Average Rating:8.5/10
Consensus: Hayao Miyazaki's dazzling, enchanting Spirited Away takes viewers, young and old alike, through the looking glass.
Theatrical Release:Sep 20, 2002 Limited
Box Office: $9,855,615
Synopsis: Directed by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, SPIRITED AWAY is the tale of Chihiro (voiced by Daveigh Chase), a young girl who is taken down an unusual road by her parents while moving to a new home... [More]
Starring: Daveigh Chase, Jason Marsden, Michael Chiklis, Susan Egan
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Reviews for Spirited Away
Top CriticHas few rivals as a work of visual imagination.
09/22/02
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09/22/02
Miyazaki has provided another triumph, and, in the midst of the quality fall-off of Disney's in-house animated projects, a reason for animation-lovers to rejoice.
09/22/02
Top CriticWatching Spirited Away is like watching an Eastern imagination explode.
09/22/02
A smashing technical achievement coming out against greed, gluttony, and pre-adolescent whining.
09/21/02
Miyazaki understands the magic Disney intended, and he elevates it to a higher realm of dreamy, worldly mysticism that is appealing to children of all ages and temperaments.
09/21/02
It almost goes without saying that the animation is jaw dropping.
09/20/02
A cultural wildcard experience: wacky, different, unusual, even nutty.
09/20/02
Top CriticLike old myths and wonder tales spun afresh.
09/20/02
Even though Disney released this film, Spirited Away points up just how by-the-numbers the studio's fare can be.
09/20/02
Creating a rare story-world that follows a consistent logic yet allows for most anything to happen, Miyazaki again proves himself to be more genii than filmmaker.
09/20/02
Spirited Away is every bit as captivating for its sheer graphic power as it is for its message of go-get-'em-girl power.
09/20/02
Top CriticHas the mythic quality and the familiarity of great children's literature.
09/20/02
Miyazaki, the master animator and director of the enchanting Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke, leads us through the looking glass as never before in Spirited Away.
09/20/02
An animation landmark as monumental as Disney's 1937 breakthrough Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
09/20/02
A lovely, evocative tour de force.
09/20/02
A two-hour feast of visual imagination, consistently rendered at the highest level of graphic art.
09/20/02
Spirited Away is one of the most richly imaginative and visually spectacular films you will see this year.
09/20/02
This is one of the year's best films.
09/20/02
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March 20, 2007:
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October 03, 2006:
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