Atom User Reviews for The Boy and The Heron - Studio Ghibli Fest 2025

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Justin Smith
#inspiring

Miyazaki’s films are always so enchanting

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nelson rosa
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James Millard
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Sierra Bailey
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Carlos Guadalupe
#mustseebro

Metacritic

100
Dec 20, 2023

It’s a thrilling journey for both young viewers and those with more cause to ponder the afterlife. A fine bow from one of the great directors.

Tara Brady
The Irish Times
60
Dec 8, 2023

The Boy and the Heron, while typically bursting with imaginative elements, is also narratively tangled and a bit confusing, and falls far short of Mr. Miyazaki’s best work.

Metacritic review by Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
Wall Street Journal
100
Sep 27, 2023

If this film is Miyazaki’s true bow, it’s a magnificent final flourish that folds together many of the thematic and aesthetic threads he’s explored through his career: man’s relationship to nature, the majesty of flight, the twin pulls of love and loss. It’s stunning and inscrutable and measures among the best of his works.

Clint Worthington
Consequence