Spirited Away Reviews

Magnificent, spellbinding movie has a bit of edge.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Full of riches, thematic and visual, and the best way to understand them is simply to watch the film and take it all in.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

Spirited Away exalts the young girl Chihiro's uncanny experiences into an adventure that is as thrillingly ambiguous as it is vividly soundtracked and illustrated.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

I went nuts over this movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Filmgoers of all ages should not pass up the opportunity to experience such a work of staggering imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

This persistently fascinating if slightly over-long fairytale is propelled by the seemingly boundless imagination of writer-director Hayao Miyazaki.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Spirited Away is wonderful.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A fractured, knotted story about adjusting to new surroundings and having courage in the face of peril.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Think you're too hip for Japanese anime about a lost ten-year-old girl whose parents turn into snorting pigs? Get over it.

| Original Score: 4/4

Miyazaki has created a complete, complex world with this film, and it's certainly a magical journey. Very, very good entertainment.

Full Review | Original Score: A

Despite a dip midway through, this is a captivating fantasy that sets a new benchmark for animation.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Initially seems like a Through the Looking-Glass fantasy, but rapidly picks up a resonance, weight and complexity that make it all but Shakespearean.

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I struggled to find the source of imperfection in this film

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

Far and away the best film I've seen this year.

| Original Score: A

Not instructive, as Disney is, and not aloof, like anime. Spirited Away is fun without being a lesson, and it welcomes you in.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

'Mostrando un profundo respeto por el mundo espiritual, Miyazaki logra una verdadera joya de la animación que a veces raya en lo poético'

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It races along with the speed of a bullet train, visiting weird, enchanted places the likes of which have never been seen before.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10

The wonders never stop.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Miyazaki confía en la inteligencia del público y en su capacidad de asombro, y ambas cosas las pone a prueba constantemente en este viaje extraordinario donde todo, cualquier cosa, puede pasar en cualquier momento.

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