When Marnie Was There

As a visual (and auditory) experience, When Marnie Was There offers so many other pleasures that audiences may well overlook the story issues...

While Marnie lacks the densely mystical, immersive quality of Ghibli at its best, the film features characteristically exquisite hand-drawn animati...

As a children’s movie, it’s uncommonly sensitive and complicated, rooted in relationships rather than dazzling action. But adults...

Like many Ghibli films, its central characters are female, its story a mixture of the quotidian and the remarkable.

At times as awkward as its young protagonist, yet brimming with the familiar Ghibli magic.

Yonebayashi has touched on the greater mystery underlying everyday life, a world pulsing with wonder and possibility, edged with a shadow of m...

That’s what Ghibli’s films have always done – they sweep over you like summer showers, and leave the world seeming brighter and re...

An intimate, emotional journey, which may lack the scope and scale of previous Ghibli adventures, but remains a bittersweet sayonara for the s...

If you feel any kinship with the disaffected, "When Marnie Was There" has much to tell you.

Yet another splendid escape from the increasingly strenuous glut of computer-animated offerings, this one designed to serve as family entertainment...

Subtle, sometimes really sad and honest about the struggles of adolescence, "Marnie" is a worthy last entry from Ghibli before the studio repo...

There are moments of hushed magic here, of moonlit, seaside and tree-shadowed visual poetry, that rival anything Ghibli has ever created.

To those film lovers attuned to quiet moments and emotional nuance, this film has a shine all its own. The old-school hand-drawn animation cel...

While not a masterpiece, it is beautiful, nonetheless.

It’s a quiet film of modest narrative ambitions and simple shifts, but its technical and visual ambitions couldn’t be higher.

When Marnie Was There may start off a bit awkwardly, but it’ll have you bathing in your own tears by the time it’s over.

Though its curious narrative arc means you’re never sure exactly where it’s going, the film works up a considerable emotional char...

The gentle, unforced charm of the animation feels like the very best of book illustration come to miraculous life, but with a strong, almost H...

Showcasing the gorgeous hand-drawn work that is a hallmark of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli, When Marnie Was There tells a story...

Yonebayashi made his feature directing debut with The Secret World of Arrietty, adapted from the British children’s book The Borrowers, and t...

Studio Ghibli has created a gorgeous animation that digs deep within the darkest fears of childhood, while also weaving a beautiful tale...

The painterly, old-school aesthetic brings an aptly nostalgic feel to this examination of how the past can haunt the present and the rapturous inte...

A beautifully animated tale.

The artwork is simple and elegant; Anna’s fragility and self-loathing is portrayed clearly.

Even without its moving parable of emotional repair, When Marnie Was There has all of Ghibli’s exquisitely hand-drawn sense of place …

The quasi-Sapphic intensity of Anna and Marnie’s relationship – recalling Ghost World or a benign Heavenly Creatures – is poet...

There are times, especially in the first act, when "When Marnie Was There" lacks a certain urgency, often moving with all the drive of a...