Howl’s Moving Castle

An eye-popping, mind-bending phantasmagoria from one of the greatest living film artists.

Miyazaki is like a soulful cartographer of the soul, mapping our inner landscape, leaving us bedazzled.

Palaces and shimmering lakes, warplanes and fire sprites all come to life at the breath of Miyazaki’s graphic genius.

Miyazaki’s animated adaptation of Jones' book is a charming and thoroughly absorbing treat.

At its best, Howl’s Moving Castle offers a rich fantasy of adolescent escape, of romance in the old and epic sense.

The risibly cloying closing scenes are likely to nix any remaining goodwill, blotting out such delicate early touches as a stroll through the air f...

The latest animated tour de force from the Japanese director Hayao Miyazak is a fitting introduction to one of modern cinema’s great enc...

Howl’s Moving Castle has the logic of a dream: behind every door lie multiple realities, one more astonishing than the next.

So richly detailed and colorful that one almost aches from the beauty.

There’s also a pervasive, intoxicating sense of enchantment. It’s magic.

As much of a hand-drawn treat as Spirited Away, chock-full of numinous sunsets, fabulous organic machinery and gratuitously delightful touches.

Miyazaki’s gift for wonder, an ease with fantasy that makes enchantment second nature, is so great it obliterates differences in language.

If you’ve yet to take the anime plunge, this is a fine place to start; if you’re an old hand, you will not be disappointed.

There’s a word for the kind of comic, dramatic, romantic, transporting visions Miyazaki achieves in Howl’s: bliss.

What you get, above all, is some enchanting flashes of classic Miyazaki and the nagging sense that something essential is missing.

Miyazaki isn’t interested in the jolts of surrealism so much as imbuing his audience with the idea that reality can change at any moment, and...

Howl’s Moving Castle is a Hayao Miyazaki film through and through, but the film’s meta momentum is bound to disappoint fans of the...

Miyazaki may not have achieved the level of Spirited Away, but he’s still ahead of the curve.

This movie often soars, blending a childlike sense of wonder with sophisticated emotions and motives.

Miyazaki, now in his mid-60s, has a refreshing and persuasive way of relating youth to old age and callowness to wisdom. Rather than presentin...

[Miyazaki] may have made better films than Howl’s Moving Castle, but it still exhibits his amazing imagination and astonishing detail.

Another stunningly beautiful and beguiling work of animation from Japan’s Hayao Miyazaki.

It’s not Miyazaki’s best work, but it is leagues beyond any traditional 2-D animation out of 3-D-mad Hollywood lately, and more beguili...

A floatingly delightful fairytale with its heart set on repealing the law of gravity.

With its bold screen-filling imagery, this is definitely a movie to be relished on the big screen.

The visuals are stunning, bursting with vivid colors and surreal inventiveness.

A strange delight awash in visual splendor, understated humor and clever body-and-soul transmogrifications among its bonny band of weirdos.

The whole thing has the heavenly whimsy of Ludwig Bemelmans' illustrations from the classic French children’s books.

A wise and wonderful parable of the passing moments of life, and dealing with both the advantages and burdens that make us individuals.

Miyazaki has an appeal that crosses generations. Adult audiences are drawn to the depth and variety of his vision, but so are kids, and for exactly...