Fresh
Artful but not arty, Spirited Away is a handcrafted cartoon, as personal as an Utamaro painting, yet its breadth and heart give it an appeal that should touch American viewers of all ages.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Spirited Away
Grow up and learn to love.
2001 · 2h 5m · PG
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Directed by
Hayao Miyazaki
Overview
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The result is nothing less than magical, a throwback to the very best of early Disney. If I can't remember the last time I was this enchanted by an animated film, it's because I was too young.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Fresh
It's an amazing work, filled with a visual intelligence that's meticulously composed and obscenely clever.
Michael Agger, New Yorker
Fresh
Miyazaki's luminescent, gorgeously realized world is relatively safe for children, but it also acknowledges blood, pain, dread, and death in ways that other animated films wouldn't dare.
Tasha Robinson, AV Club
Fresh
Spirited Away has much to say about many worthy things: the life of the spirit, materialist greed, the importance of words, the power of love.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
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