The Boy and the Heron
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Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Hayao Miyazaki
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2025: Scarlet, Arco, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2025: The President’s Cake, Death Does Not Exist, Peak Everything
Features
Miyazaki, Howl, and Matters of the Heart
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2024
MZS
It’s Too Bad That Audience Pictures Like Ultraman: Rising Will Barely Be Seen in Theaters
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival
MZS
On Luca, Tenet, The Invisible Man and Other Films from the Early Pandemic Era that Deserve More Big-Screen Time
Festivals & Awards
War Was Not Over at the 2024 Oscars
Festivals & Awards
Oscars 2024: The View from the Room
Festivals & Awards
A Great Movie Year Deserved a Better Oscars
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Win This Year
Festivals & Awards
Nine Major Omissions from the 2024 Oscar Nominations
Festivals & Awards
The 96th Academy Award Nominations Are Announced, Led by Oppenheimer
Festivals & Awards
Oscar Predictions 2024: What Will Be Nominated This Year
Features
The Great Craft of 2023
Festivals & Awards
2024 Awards Season Kickoff: Palm Springs, Variety Honorees, Golden Globes, Governors Awards
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: A Canadian Looks Back at a Tumultuous Fest
Festivals & Awards
59th Chicago International Film Festival Announces Exciting Full Line-up of Features and Shorts
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: The Boy and the Heron, We Grown Now, Unicorns
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: August 2023
Interviews
Quietly Revolutionary: Abby Ryder Fortson and Kelly Fremon Craig on Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Interviews
The Towering Fear: Makoto Shinkai on Suzume
Interviews
A True Artiste: Lloyd Kaufman on His Career and His Final Film
Festivals & Awards
Bring the Governors Awards Back to the Oscars
TV/Streaming
Embrace the Beauty of Cartoon Saloon’s Irish Folklore Trilogy
Tributes
You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim): Patricia J. Sobczynski, 1941-2021
Features
How Do You Live Offers a Window into the Mind of Hayao Miyazaki
Features
A Tour Through the Brand New Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
Interviews
Sensitive Souls: Goro Miyazaki on Earwig and the Witch
Chaz's Journal
Meet the Writers: Carlos Aguilar
Features
Nausicaä Awakens: The Influence of Hayao Miyazaki on the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
Features
The Best Scores of the Decade
Far Flungers
The Legacy of The Iron Giant
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: May 9, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: March 28, 2019
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 7, 2019
Features
Short FIlms in Focus: Lost & Found
Chaz's Journal
A Look Back at Those We Lost in 2018
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: May 10, 2018
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room April 2018: The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower: On A Little Princess and The Secret Garden by Corbin Dewitt
Features
Why Do Fireflies Have To Die So Soon?: A Tribute to Isao Takahata, 1935-2018
Chaz's Journal
We Have Been Them: Roger Ebert’s Reviews About Empathy
Chaz's Journal
A Collection of Roger’s Pixar Reviews
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room March 2017: “Towards a True Children’s Cinema: On ‘My Neighbor Totoro'” by Lauren Wilford
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 17, 2016
Features
Exclusive: Roger Ebert’s “The Great Movies IV” In Print For the First Time
Festivals & Awards
Why the Oscars Need to Move Lifetime Achievement Back to the Telecast
Chaz's Journal
International Animation Day, October 28th, 2015
Far Flungers
Chihiro’s Journey: Analyzing “Spirited Away”
Chaz's Journal
Who’s Who In Reviews: Matt Zoller Seitz
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: June 25, 2015
Chaz's Journal
Roger’s Birthday Movies
Festivals & Awards
Four-Star Reviews of 2015
Festivals & Awards
If We Picked the Winners 2015: Best Animated Film
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 4, 2014
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: November 20, 2014
Far Flungers
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2014
Far Flungers
AFI Fest 2014: Haunting Stories from Abroad
Features
Thumbnails 11/17/14
Far Flungers
Doraemon Stand By Me: A Robot Cat without a Gong
Festivals & Awards
Report from the 27th Tokyo Film Festival
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2014: Traveling in a Darkened Theater
Features
Thumbnails 8/6/14
Features
Comic-Con 2014: Cartoon Saloon
Features
Meet the Writers: Jana Monji
Features
Thumbnails 4/24/14
Features
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Features
Thumbnails 2/17/14
Features
Thumbnails 12/13/2013
Festivals & Awards
New York Film Critics Circle and National Board of Review Start the Oscar Race
Far Flungers
“Colorful”: Japanese award-nominated film finally gets a release, if only on VoD
Festivals & Awards
AFI Film Festival: Report from the Opening Weekend
Far Flungers
“The Wind Rises”: And Everything Just Floats By…
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 2002
Roger Ebert
Japanese animation unleashes the mind
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1999
Roger Ebert
The Best 10 Movies of 1998
Scanners
The “Best” Non-English-Language Films (Round 1)
Scanners
More film polls: Top 150 of Decade, Top 160 of 2009…
Scanners
Consensus? Mulholland Dr. is LA Film Critics’ movie of the decade, too
Far Flungers
The rise and decline of the superhero
Far Flungers
From the Valley of the Wind
Far Flungers
‘Ponyo,’ the missing Oscar nominee,by Michael Mirasol of Manila
TV/Streaming
Legend of the Millennium Dragon: Epic anime
Roger Ebert
Cannes #1: Up, up and away, in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon
Roger Ebert
The ten best animated films of 2009
Festivals & Awards
CIFF 2012 puts the ‘Chicago’ in film fest
Festivals & Awards
Ebert’s Oscar predictions (2006)
Festivals & Awards
‘Brokeback’ leads nominations
Festivals & Awards
‘Chicago’ leads the parade
Festivals & Awards
Roger Ebert’s 2003 Oscar Predictions
Festivals & Awards
Moore hits corporate target in ‘Columbine’
Festivals & Awards
Toronto fest signals the opening of Good Movie Season
Festivals & Awards
Best films stand out at festival
Festivals & Awards
Drawing success
Festivals & Awards
Telluride earns trust of film fans
Interviews
Drawing on ‘Spirited’ world
Interviews
