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  Review by 24framesofnick ★★★★½ 7

  You can sit and ponder the very nature of existence and grief. Juggling the choice of letting go or staying. Asking yourself if you really had enough time with someone you love before that time runs out.

  Or you can crank 90’s and build a block tower

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½

  How does someone follow one of the greatest and most profoundly summative farewells the movies have ever seen? By definition, they don’t. They retire, or they die. Or they retire and then they die. In some rare cases, it even seems like they die because they retired.

  And then there’s 82-year-old filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, always in a category of his own, who’s formally or informally quit the business no fewer than seven times of the course of his illustrious career, most recently after the 2013 release of his magnum opus “The Wind Rises.” A fictionalized biopic about aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose most visionary designs were built with forced Korean labor and deployed at the wasteful…

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★★ 9

  spent some of the movie worried it was gonna be too hard to pin down, or aiming at too many topics at once, barraging the viewer with inventiveness at the cost of coherence. what a fool I am. Miyazaki knows exactly what he's doing, and the ending is so wonderful and shattering.

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  Review by CinemaJoe ★★★★★ 16

  The helplessness you feel when you realize the end is near— you want to cling to the memories of the past, but sometimes it’s best to just let it go. 

  Staggering. We don’t deserve Hayao Miyazaki.

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  Review by ˗ˏˋ suspirliam ˊˎ˗ ★★★★★ 25

  watched in tokyo on imax i am truly living my best life!!!!! ghibli only releasing the poster and making everyone go into this film completely blind is pure genius and makes it such a magical experience! it really does feel like a culmination of miyazaki’s work and watching it knowing that it’s (probably) going to be his swan song makes it hit even harder!!! will not be forgetting this one for quite some time that’s for sure

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  Review by the film drunk ★★★½ 3

  I once again leave a Miyazaki film thinking about the cute small creatures he makes I love them with all my heart

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  Review by cinemonika ★★★★½

  living in the same timeline as hayao miyazaki is truly a gift

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  Review by chiakiii ★★★★★ 4

  An accumulation of everything Hayao Miyazaki has gifted us throughout his incredible career. An epic finale and an emotional goodbye to his beloved world, characters, and magic.

  Watching this in theaters without having absolutely no information about the film was surreal. It's nearly impossible nowadays to go watch a movie without having any sort of information about it, whether it's a poster, trailer, music, or teaser, so this was an incredibly refreshing and valuable experience. The shock and excitement of not knowing anything made me giddy. I braced myself, but I was not ready.

  The nostalgia of all of Miyazaki's works can be felt throughout as well as a sense of deja vu, as if you have walked the same…

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  Review by Ethan Williams ★★★★ 17

  When contemplating how he’d like to end his iconic legacy as one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time, Hayao Miyazaki simply said…

  
  “Bird Up.”

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  Review by iana ★★★★★

  we’re just so lucky to be living in this moment

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★★★½

  An adventure fable, a horror movie, and a story of acceptance. Somehow both a kid’s story and an old man’s goodbye. I love it.

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  Review by coffee ★★★★½

  sometimes people die, sometimes things disappear, and sometimes there’s nothing we can do to change it, and nothing we can do to replace it. and maybe that’s okay