Despite not sticking the landing with his script, Hosada manages to successfully manipulate our emotions with moments of powerful themes accented by incredible visuals and musical performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2023

Belle is easily one of the best animated films of 2021! Mamoru Hosoda has taken concept of Beauty and the Beast & made it something truly awe-inspiring! The music, voice acting, emotional depth, and character story telling is something to never forget!

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 26, 2022

The restraint takes a scene that could have been merely comic into something as beautiful as it is silly. It’s slice-of-life filmmaking at its best.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2022

I thought it was kind of sumptuous. I really enjoyed it and loved the characterization.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2022

Hosoda's return to themes that have defined his directorial career is as gorgeous to behold as it is blindingly hopeful.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2022

With fascinating reflections and messages of empowerment, freedom and hope for the next generations, it is a cinematographic feast that transfers to a modern stage the cardinal concepts of a timeless fable. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 7, 2022

How did the anime version of “Beauty and the Beast” combine with “Ready Player One” to result in a teen drama that is subtle, moving and resonant?

Full Review | Sep 6, 2022

A triumph of a release from All The Anime. An exhaustive, technically excellent, and beautifully presented package for one of Mamoru Hosoda’s best films to date. [Belle Limited Edition 4K Boxset review]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 13, 2022

While it mightn't seem like it'd need courage to create this lush, grand, generous and captivating film — and gorgeous as well — but bold, insightful and transfixing takes on stories as old as rhyme just don't come around that often.

Full Review | Jun 25, 2022

A reflection on solitude, trauma, timidity, and adolescent grief which simultaneously happens against a virtual universe with almost discordant colors and plagued with five million followers. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jun 8, 2022

A visual wellspring, a cascade of fast, fleeting images that capture quite well the sign of the times. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2022

While taking a central idea from the classic fairy tale (and with a special emphasis on Disney's toon version), this imaginative piece is very much its own, uh, beast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 21, 2022

... Allows the heroine to embark on a journey of maturity, capable of moving any viewer, whether or not they are animation lovers. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2022

A little bit Apple shareholder meeting; a little Social Network; a dash of Disney Princess, and a massive helping of technofuturist anime possibility.

Full Review | May 13, 2022

Belle is a reflection of the dangers of the internet, written with the essence of an ethereal story. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2022

With a multifaceted soundtrack boosting its emotional punch, Belle makes an old tale soar anew.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 24, 2022

Belle takes familiar tales as old as time and upgrades them with swipe-down social commentary in a modern tale of love, loss and identifiable insecurities. Its as touching and transcendent as filmmaking gets.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2022

A traditional tale made for our times. Times where the identity and empathy are a gift. Also with a social and cultural point of view of the nowadays teenagers generation. Full review in Spanish

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 20, 2022

Belle is more than just another version of Beauty and the Beast. It's a highly imaginative, visually stunning, and emotionally stirring film that embodies some of the best anime of the 21st century.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2022

More humdrum than fascinating, the film is nothing more than a soppy teen-pleaser.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2022