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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 29 Nov 2018

This tenderly animated Japanese film about sibling rivalry is lovely with its fantasy, but too convoluted for children and too slight for adults…

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By Bilge Ebiri (1,050) for New York Times (5,786) on 29 Nov 2018

Fluctuating between the minor daily occurrences of Kun’s life and his touching sojourns into the past and the future, Hosoda’s film privileges…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for Blu-ray.com (2,093) on 29 Nov 2018

Captures something unique when it concentrates on pure reaction from children, showing remarkable awareness of frustrations and fears as attention…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 29 Nov 2018

Mirai casts a spell that works on children and adults alike, but in different ways…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 29 Nov 2018

But all of that — the visual style included — changes as the film develops an edge, then expands into a lyrical realm that is both very…

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By Nick Rogers (786) for Midwest Film Journal (148) on 27 Nov 2018

There certainly are some lovely moments and imaginative animations in Kun's mind-bending journey to find the confidence and conviction to truly…

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By Pat Brown (171) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Nov 2018

The fabric of the fantasy world depicted in the film lacks the cohesion of its central theme about appreciating one’s place in a family tree…

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By Chris Stuckmann (217) for ChrisStuckmann.com (205) on 21 Nov 2018

There's a lot of narrative jump-rope to get through, but it's still enchanting and brave…

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By Andrew Osmond (34) for Sight and Sound (827) on 16 Nov 2018

Mirai is admirable as a creative experiment by a popular director who's demonstrably still restless…

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By Edward Porter (366) for Sunday Times (UK) (753) on 05 Nov 2018

Some scenes are mawkish, but most of it is enchanting, and it's grounded in a sweetly accurate study of how four-year-olds move…

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By Matthew Bond (673) for The Mail on Sunday (UK) (704) on 05 Nov 2018

Mirai is a lovely Japanese animation about sibling rivalry, parenting and magically-passed-on wisdom…

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By Ross Miller (135) for The National (Scotland) (129) on 04 Nov 2018

This is a beautiful film, dazzling and bold yet gentle-hearted in the ways it goes about presenting its world…

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By Phil Hoad (110) for Guardian (4,584) on 02 Nov 2018

Hosoda’s delicate, painterly style is perfect for capturing Kun’s evanescent imaginary haven – and conveying the message about the moral…

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By Jamie East (261) for The Sun (UK) (932) on 02 Nov 2018

It reflects our worries and love of family directly back at us, in vivid, trippy and beautiful form…

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By David Parkinson (764) for Empire Magazine (3,326) on 01 Nov 2018

Tempering its flights of fancy with moments of whimsical humour and kid’s-eye realism, this thoughtful treatise on growing pains reveals…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 01 Nov 2018

Mirai bathes ordinary family life in a beautiful new light…

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By Alistair Harkness (1,042) for Scotsman (1,471) on 01 Nov 2018

The core story is relatively simple, but its child's-eye depiction of a toddler's existential angst is inventively rendered with surreal flights…

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By Michael Leader (59) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 01 Nov 2018

An ambitious, one-of-a-kind family fantasy…

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By Anton Bitel (1,340) for Projected Figures (169) on 01 Nov 2018

Conceals beneath its breezy sentimentality a dream-like narrative complexity that you may find yourself pleasantly unravelling for some time…

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By Tara Brady (805) for Irish Times (1,391) on 31 Oct 2018

A crucial scene at a train station…

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