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The Secret World of Arrietty

Karigurashi no Arietti

2010

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Animation

7.2

10,645

Animation. Fantasy. Drama. Kids Sho moves into his great aunt's house and soon discovers the presence of tiny people, the Borrowers, living there. A 14-year-old Borrower named Arrietty strives to prove herself by helping her father gather materials that her family needs from Sho's new home. However, Arrietty and Sho meet, breaking the rule that humans must not know about the Borrowers' existence. As Sho and Arrietty's relationship develops, human interference ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"A beautifully crafted, intimate adventure movie and -presented in hand-drawn 2D- one of the most visually arresting you’ll enjoy all year. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Ben Sachs Chicago Reader	"Perhaps the most astonishing thing about Arrietty is how Hayao Miyazaki’s script imagined so many suspenseful situations without leaving a peaceful family home."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Studio Ghibli and Arrietty have a way of taking you where you may not expect"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A feast for the eyes that will engage the entire family"	POS
United States	Jane Horwitz The Washington Post	"Children age 7 and older will delight in this charmer — a stunning, artful adaptation of Mary Norton’s popular children’s book 'The Borrowers'."	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"Beautiful, gentle and pure — but not without elements of genuine menace — it will make believers out of adults and children alike."	POS
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"Though strangely devoid of humor, the film has an enormous amount of visual charm. Animators went wild designing a miniscule but homey underground universe"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"It’s a movie that will simultaneously excite the imaginations of children while charming and delighting adults."	POS
United States	Drew Taylor IndieWire	"The wry and spirited new animated version [of the books] (...) is the most breathlessly told, visually thrilling and emotionally involving yet"	POS

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