My Neighbor Totoro

critic Reviews

, 94% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score
  • My Neighbor Totoro is a heartwarming, sentimental masterpiece that captures the simple grace of childhood.
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    Mark KermodeKermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
    The plot is never the point... it's a series of nostalgic childhood images... with the interplay between nature and humanity, and nature and the modern world.
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    Peter BradshawGuardian
    This inspirationally lovely and gentle film has a real claim to be Miyazaki’s masterpiece, or first among equals in his collection.
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    Adam NaymanThe Ringer
    There’s still nothing quite like Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro...
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    Larushka Ivan-Zadehmetro.co.uk
    A beautifully observed study of childhood that's unmissable, whatever your age.
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    Charles SolomonLos Angeles Times
    Despite these limits, My Neighbor Totoro is a gentle and affirming film.
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    John HartlSeattle Times
    Miyazaki's appreciation of miraculous possibilities and childhood visions is what drives Totoro.
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    Calum CooperCinerama Film
    My Neighbour Totoro is an ode to childlike innocence and the ways life can seem all the more wonderful through that lens. We aren’t young forever, but movies like this capture the spirit of youth for all eternity.
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    Jordan BrooksVague Visages
    An astonishing achievement of handcrafted animation, Miyazaki’s third Ghibli film solidified the studio’s presence, and has become an enduring symbol of its excellence.
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    Eve TushnetPatheos
    The creepy or eerie whimsy of the troll’s world is wonderful, but unlike in Spirited Away, the stakes feel really low–it felt like the movie kept making choices to reassure the imagined child-audience that the world is soft, not scary.
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    Brian EggertDeep Focus Review
    Miyazaki's film is about imagination and family in their purest, most innocent forms.
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