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Mary and the Witch’s Flower

Meari to majo no hana

2017

Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Animation

6.3

2,042

Animation. Fantasy. Adventure Mary is an ordinary young girl stuck in the country with her Great-Aunt Charlotte and seemingly no adventures or friends in sight. She follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest, where she discovers an old broomstick and the strange Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms only once every seven years and only in that forest. Together the flower and the broomstick whisk Mary above the clouds, and far away to Endor College – a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Justin Lowe The Hollywood Reporter	"Delightfully imaginative (...) A stirring adventure most suitable for tweens and teens (...) Yonebayashi preserves many of the best characteristics of animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s venerable production company"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Hiromasa Yonebayashi delivers a family-friendly treasure every bit as enchanting as his two previous films"	POS
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"The overall vision of manor houses and rural idylls feels perfectly bucolic (...) Visually, it's a direct descendant of both 'Howl's Moving Castle' and 'Spirited Away'"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"Magic flows freely if not infinitely (...) The delicate interplay of soft textures and painterly hues pulls you deeply into this story’s world."	POS
United States	Peter Goldberg Slant	"While 'Mary and the Witch's Flower' is transporting and dynamic in its inventive world-building, its hero is ultimately flat by comparison (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Bill Desowitz IndieWire	"A visually compelling movie that honors the Ghibli tradition"	POS

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