The Village Voice, March 8th, 2006
Howl's Moving Castle
Walt Disney
Oscar-winner, New Yorker profilee, and international name above the title, Hayao Miyazaki is the one-man standing answer to the American system of corporatized feature animation, a whimsical auteur amid studio-branding homogenization. Smelling like a string of miracles, Miyazaki's best films-including Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, and Porco Rosso-are fearsomely strange, free-associative myth stories in which anything can happen but everything has emotional coherence, judgments are suspended, character is always in flux, and forgiveness is in titanic...
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