Atom User Reviews for When Marnie Was There 10th Anniversary - Studio Ghibli Fest 2024

It deals with friendship, loneliness, abandonment and forgiveness, and though its curious narrative arc means you're never sure exactly where it's going, the film works up a considerable emotional charge by the end.

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

A beautifully animated tale of the growing friendship and occasionally rather cloying emotional travails of two 12-year-old girls.

Boyd van Hoeij

The Hollywood Reporter

Yonebayashi’s open-hearted tale, more than any other Ghibli offering, could conceivably have worked just as well in live-action, and yet the tender story gains so much from the studio’s delicate, hand-crafted approach.

Peter Debruge

Variety