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- [New] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: While again perhaps a bit longer than it should be, the viewer will find The Boy and the Heron to be a beautiful piece of work.
- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat @ SpiritualityandPractice.com
- Excerpt: A boy’s spiritual journey through grief to commitment, conveyed through wonder-inducing animation.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a beautiful piece of work and unmistakably Miyazaki, but as with many personal films, some may find it more difficult to relate to, this one’s narrative stranger than usual with an overstuffed narrative.
- Bavner Donaldo @ Cinejour [Indonesian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: An enthralling fantasy from director Hayao Miyazaki, deeply inspired by his own life.
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Harrison Martin @ Flixfrog
- Excerpt: Hayao Miyazaki’s return to the director’s chair is a tour de force in animated art! The Boy and the Heron is very weird, yet visually stunning, and emotionally fulfilling. You can see why it won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
- Jared Mobarak @ Hey, have you seen …?
- Excerpt: Think of this tower as a ‘Wonderland” that morphs and distorts reality to be simultaneously scarier and safer than the conflict and emotions our young protagonist simply doesn’t have the means to process or reconcile on his own.
- Paulo Portugal @ Insider.pt [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Mesmo que O Rapaz e a Garça escape ao estatuto de obra-prima, algo a que o mestre Hayao Miyazaki nos foi habituando, ao longo das décadas, é inegável o seu poder de puro encantamento. Sobretudo quando aqui mescla a fantasia com as mais vincadas pinceladas biográficas. Ainda por cima após uma década de silêncio, uma vez que o anterior As Asas do Vento data de 2013.
- Bev Questad @ itsjustmovies.com
- Excerpt: I love Miyazaki for his ideologies of peace, integrity and social justice. His “ Princess Mononoke” and “The Wind Rises” are favorites. But “The Boy and the Heron” is more challenging to understand and distracting with its extraordinary artistic scope.
- Allison Rose @ FlickDirect
- Excerpt: Considered to be semi-autobiographical, The Boy and The Heron, evokes strong emotions even while the viewer is left uncertain to where the adventure is taking them.
- Diego Salgado @ SoFilm [Spanish]
- Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: While perhaps not quite up to the exemplary standard set by “Spirited Away,” “The Boy and the Heron” is a welcome return to the “big fantasy” genre, and sits comfortably alongside Miyazaki’s best work.
- James Wegg @ JWR
- Excerpt: Birds of a feather
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