The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
A very honest film from a great Japanese artist.
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Japan · 2013
Rated PG-13 · 2h 6m
Director Hayao Miyazaki
Starring Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura
Genre Animation
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A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
A very honest film from a great Japanese artist.
Jiro’s genius is godlike, but his personality is nonexistent; time is too-briskly spanned, then ground into blow-by-blow melodrama.
The grim subtext of The Wind Rises goes largely unacknowledged, leading to a gaping hole in this otherwise beautifully realized narrative that celebrates the power of curiosity as a motivating force.
Slant Magazine by Jesse Cataldo
Even if Hayao Miyazaki's career is complete, a work like this serves to remind us of the shining beacons he's left behind him, the testaments to pursuing beauty in the face of so much ugliness, themselves lasting reminders of the quiet rewards of determination.
Entertainment Weekly by Keith Staskiewicz
As gorgeously animated as any of his previous movies, Wind has Miyazaki trading in his more fantastical impulses for contemplative, old-fashioned drama and period detail.
The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton
It might not be the director's most immediately accessible films, but it's among his most fascinating and beguiling.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
There are visual flights of fancy here as glorious as anything Miyazaki’s studio has created, but the story is rooted in a country trudging towards its own destruction.
Miyazaki is at the peak of his visual craftsmanship here, alternating lush, boldly colored rural vistas with epic, crowded urban canvases, soaring aerial perspectives and test flights both majestic and ill-fated.
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A gorgeous yet ultimately frustrating tribute to the Japanese airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.
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