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Ghost in the Shell

Kokaku Kidotai (Ghost in the Shell)

1995

Mamoru Oshii

Animation

7.5

36,909

Animation. Sci-Fi. Action The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth. First anime film to be released at the same time in Japan, Britain, and the United States. Its ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Futuristic classic improves with age (...) With its prescient visions of violence and alienation in cyberspace, this bizarre anime looks all the more impressive 22 years on (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I enjoyed its visuals, its evocative soundtrack (...) and its ideas (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A work of profound and melancholic beauty (...) Mamoru Oshii's sci-fi masterpiece is as essential in the 21st century as it was in the 20th (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Charles Solomon IndieWire	"[It] largely defined the cyberpunk genre–and influenced the Matrix films"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Huddleston Time Out	"There are moments of sheer visual poetry in ‘Ghost in the Shell’ (...) For sheer mind-expanding sci-fi strangeness this is hard to beat (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Clark Collis Empire	"This is exactly the kind of film that James Cameron would make if they ever let him through the Disney front gates. Just make sure you see it on a big screen (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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