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Kimi no Na wa. (Your Name.)

2016

Makoto Shinkai

Animation

7.8

27,580

Animation. Drama. Romance. Fantasy Mitsuha is the daughter of the mayor of a small mountain town. She's a straightforward high school girl who lives with her sister and her grandmother and has no qualms about letting it be known that she's uninterested in Shinto rituals or helping her father's electoral campaign. Instead she dreams of leaving the boring town and trying her luck in Tokyo. Taki is a high school boy in Tokyo who works part-time in an Italian restaurant and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] First-rate Japanese anime (...) The beauty of the feature lies in its ability to stir the imagination with eerie, resonant hand-drawn animation."	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"This vividly realized and emotionally satisfying feature ought to make Shinkai a household name - certainly in Japan, and with any luck, in other countries as well."	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Makoto Shinkai's anime stunner deserves its unexpected Oscar buzz."	POS
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke Time Out	"[A] visually stunning slice of Japanese animation (...) [A] staggeringly beautiful film. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Mark Kermode The Guardian	"This splendid movie (...) will leave audiences in a heady reverie long after its mysterious light has faded from the screen. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The beauty of 'Your Name' is that, as in the best animated movies, the thin black lines of the character design invariably dissolve, and all that remains are Taki and Mitsuha, thoroughly mixed-up teenagers."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"It’s a beautiful, captivating piece of work that gets off to kind of a rocky start but achieves remarkable momentum toward an emotional, powerful ending (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Forbes	"A visually stunning masterpiece with refreshingly understated warmth"	POS

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