Spirited Away Reviews

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• magnificent movie with scary creatures and a strong heroine. This is a thrilling, spectacularly beautiful movie, though it's not for little kids who get scared

  by Liz Perle [Common Sense Media ]

• Hayao Miyazaki's sublime, fluid masterpiece about a 10-year-old girl lost in a shadowy amusement park for the spirits is a triumph of psychological depth and artistic brilliance offered as the magical adventures of one skinny girl

  Review rate : A- by Lisa Schwarzabaum [Entertainment Weekly ]

• enchanting and impressively crafted; The hand-drawn animation from Miyazaki's studio is a feast for the eye, assimilating everyone from Monet to Kitagawa Utamaro to Henry Darger

  by Ted Shen [Chicago Reader ]

• director Hayao Miyazaki's insistence on hand-drawn graphics gives the CGI visuals an ethereal charm that ensures the story is always a pleasure to behold, even during its rare moments of inaction

  by David Parkinson [Radio Times ]

• despite a dip midway through, this is a captivating fantasy that sets a new benchmark for animation

  by Patrick Peters [Empire Magazine ]

• a beautifully drawn and wonderfully composed work of art - really, no other description will do - which takes us on a rocket-fuelled flight of fancy, with tenderly and shrewdly conceived characters on board

  by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]

• "Spirited Away" is proof that a combination of imaginative and profound writing coupled with draughtsmanship of the highest calibre can exceed the wildest dreams of the innovative creator. It's vivid, amusing and genuinely awe-inspiring

  by Neil Norman [London Evening Standard ]

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