Reviews for this film from our members:
- Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Ecco il Miyazaki che non ti aspetti. Dopo una lunghissima carriera nell’animazione, cominciata negli anni ’70 e proseguita con una serie ininterrotta di capolavori all’ombra dello Studio Ghibli, il suo undicesimo ed ultimo film, in concorso al Lido, ma già uscito nelle sale giapponesi, è una delusione cocente, che nulla aggiunge alla poetica del suo autore.
- Mario Alegre @ Primera Hora [Spanish]
- [New – 5/22/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- Excerpt: Airplanes are beautiful dreams, Caproni tells Jiro. Oh, Miyazaki-sensei, so are your films…
- Jesse Cataldo @ Slant Magazine
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: If engineers turn dreams into reality, filmmakers turns reality into dreams. Miyazaki is one of our finest dreamweavers.
- Edwin Davies @ A Mighty Fine Blog
- Excerpt: A film concerned with ephemeral, elemental questions about art which ties them to a sad personal relationship, to often devastating effect. It’s an occasionally perplexing final statement, but an unforgettable one, and a haunting final bow from a true master
- Tony Dayoub @ Cinema Viewfinder
- Excerpt: Whatever one might read into the film, there is no doubt that The Wind Rises is a dreamy but penetrating look into a culture that continues to best be characterized today as alien.
- David Ehrlich @ Film.com
- Excerpt: Perhaps the greatest animated film ever made.
- Candice Frederick @ Reel Talk
- Excerpt: What would you do if you could do anything?
- Kimberly Gadette @ Doddle
- Excerpt: The Wind Rises is akin to sitting through an unbearably long flight in which the view can only be appreciated so much …
- Takis Gkaris @ www.moviesltd.gr [Greek]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: It’s all gorgeously hand drawn in the anime style so fans of Studio Ghibli will most definitely be in heaven. The imaginative production is clearly the lovingly crafted work of a talented director driven by passion.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Leaving one with plenty to admire but fewer chances to feel fulfilled emotionally, this is arguably lesser Miyazaki, but Miyazaki nonetheless.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: With The Wind Rises, his many fans around the world are faced with the bittersweet reality that this will be his last film. A perfect finale to a legendary career.
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: An engineer pursues his dreams in Miyazaki’s latest (and hopefully not last)
- Darren Mooney @ the m0vie blog
- Excerpt: A fond (if flawed) farewell…
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Miyazaki’s film is a mix of stunning animation and troubling politics.
- Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: The 86th Oscar nominations have bravely, and rightly, fingered “The Wind Rises” as one of five works for Best Animated Film.
- Jamie S. Rich @ Oregon Live
- Excerpt: “The Wind Rises” is unmistakably an old man’s movie. It’s Miyazaki reflecting on his own life, on the creative drive that pushed him to become one of the world’s most beloved filmmakers.
- Tom Santilli @ Examiner.com
- Excerpt: The Wind Rises is also a very interesting animated tale, that flips genre and convention on its head.
- Norm Schrager @ Paste Magazine
- Excerpt: Miyazaki imbues each sequence with an indefinable human texture…
- Don Simpson @ Smells Like Screen Spirit
- Excerpt: While The Wind Rises is a far superior animated film in comparison to its Hollywood counterparts, this film does not represent what I love most about Miyazaki — primarily, his whimsical approach to fantasy and the surrealist rabbit holes that he effortlessly drags us down.
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Ron Wilkinson @ ItsJustMovies.com
- Excerpt: The film starts strong, but by the end Miyazaki is still struggling to recapture the great feeling of fear and awe that pervaded “Spirited Away.”
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