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Spirited Away

The 21st Century’s 100 greatest films (BBC)

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

2001

Hayao Miyazaki

Animation

8.1

114,094

Animation. Fantasy. Adventure 10-year old Chihiro becomes trapped in a forbidden world of gods and magic when her parents take her to investigate the other side of the tunnel. In order to survive, Chihiro must work and make herself useful, and find within her the courage and resolve she needs to save her parents and escape from a world where humans are dispised.

	Author	Review
Spain	FilmAffinity	James Cameron, director of Titanic: "Beauty, power, mystery, and above all, heart."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Miyazaki] offers complexity. His backgrounds are rich in detail, his canvas embraces space liberally, and it is all drawn with meticulous attention (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An enchanted and enchanting feature (...) It is a beautifully drawn and wonderfully composed work of art (...) [A] flight of fancy, with tenderly and shrewdly conceived characters on board (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"No one else conjures the phantasmagoric and shifting morality of dreams (...) in the way this master Japanese animator does."	POS
United States	Tasha Robinson AV Club	"A wonderful encore, marked by the painstaking attention to detail and artful balance between terror and joy that make his work unique."	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"[It] rapidly picks up a resonance, weight and complexity that make it all but Shakespearean (...) No other word for it: a masterpiece."	POS
United States	Noel Murray Rolling Stone	"Part fantasy, part adventure, part dream, and part metaphor (...) Masterpiece (...) It's all held together by a thrilling and poignant story"	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"An out-and-out charmer (...) It’s almost impossible to do justice in words either to the visual richness of the movie"	POS
United Kingdom	Patrick Peters Empire	"Masterpiece (...) A captivating fantasy that sets a new benchmark for animation (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jake Cole Slant	"Even the film’s calmer scenes (...) [are] blocked frames intended to produce a specific emotional response (...) Epic in aesthetic scope and urgent in its narrative motivation (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ted Shen Chicago Reader	"Enchanting and impressively crafted (...) It teaches us to understand ourselves better (...) The hand-drawn animation from Miyazaki's studio is a feast for the eye"	POS

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