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Kiki's Delivery Service is a heartwarming, gorgeously-rendered tale of a young witch discovering her place in the world.
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The film becomes a benign guided tour of femininity ... gently broaching universal coming-of-age issues such as independence, insecurity, and even - more boldly than any Western children's movie would contemplate - sexuality. May 26, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The film becomes a benign guided tour of femininity ... gently broaching universal coming-of-age issues such as independence, insecurity, and even - more boldly than any Western children's movie would contemplate - sexuality.
Steve Rose
Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat. May 24, 2016 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat.
Tom Huddleston
The characters are gently and warmly rendered, and a climactic action sequence involving an unmoored dirigible hints at the stately grandiosity of Miyazaki's masterpiece Howl's Moving Castle. Nov 26, 2012 | Full Review…
The characters are gently and warmly rendered, and a climactic action sequence involving an unmoored dirigible hints at the stately grandiosity of Miyazaki's masterpiece Howl's Moving Castle.
J. R. Jones
Top-drawer kiddie fare for both fans of the exotic and mainstream family auds. Aug 10, 2009 | Full Review…
Top-drawer kiddie fare for both fans of the exotic and mainstream family auds.
Ken Eisner
It's a really wonderful little film. Feb 21, 2019 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
It's a really wonderful little film.
Rachel Wagner
All of it is just beautiful. Aug 20, 2018 | Full Review…
All of it is just beautiful.
Stephanie Cooke
Kiki is at that difficult age where she teeters constantly brazen overconfidence and frustrating self-doubt. It's an age that many parents fear, but it's handled gracefully in Kiki's Delivery Service. Oct 17, 2017 | Full Review…
Kiki is at that difficult age where she teeters constantly brazen overconfidence and frustrating self-doubt. It's an age that many parents fear, but it's handled gracefully in Kiki's Delivery Service.
Austin Trunick
Repeated viewings will only add to the pleasure -- and rest assured, there were probably be many of those. Aug 24, 2017 | Full Review…
Repeated viewings will only add to the pleasure -- and rest assured, there were probably be many of those.
Dorothy Woodend
The film's status as a top-tier animated endeavor is baffling, to say the least, and it's ultimately difficult not to wonder what its ardent followers have embraced so passionately over the years. Dec 4, 2015 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The film's status as a top-tier animated endeavor is baffling, to say the least, and it's ultimately difficult not to wonder what its ardent followers have embraced so passionately over the years.
David Nusair
...a visual swoon over the delights of flight. Jun 28, 2014 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
...a visual swoon over the delights of flight.
Josh Larsen
[Miyazaki] revitalizes conventional tropes, using elegant imagery to say something substantial about growing up, and he even subverts gender stereotypes along the way. Feb 20, 2014 | Rating: A+ | Full Review…
[Miyazaki] revitalizes conventional tropes, using elegant imagery to say something substantial about growing up, and he even subverts gender stereotypes along the way.
Christopher Runyon
An endearing fantasy adventure from Japanese master-animator Hayao Miyazaki is given a quality Disney makeover in its English-language version. Nov 27, 2013 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
An endearing fantasy adventure from Japanese master-animator Hayao Miyazaki is given a quality Disney makeover in its English-language version.
Tom Folley
An average Miyazaki film that doesn't develop so well its many elements into a cohesive narrative as it should - like for example the character's sudden loss of power and her inability to make friends. The result is amusing, even if not that satisfying.
Super Reviewer
even in the fantastical miyazaki gives us a realistic female character, something more true to life and down to earth than the princesses we normally get from animation with female leads. this film is a bit more reductionist than some of his better known films, and it moves a bit more slowly, but the story plays out as a bit of an allegory to the experience many of us have when looking at real life for the first time. the conversation between kiki and the girl at the cabin in the woods towards the end is something that just about all people can relate to, and it puts this film and life in general in genuine perspective. not as provocative as some of miyazaki's best films, but still good.
The first film by Hayao Miyazaki that I saw. It's still his most purely enjoyable film and features one of his best heroines.
Its cute, entertaining, beautifully animated, and perfect for the entire film. Kirsten Dunst does a great job in her first film as Kiki, and Phil Hartman does a great and funny performance in one of his last roles as her cat Gigi
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