Millennium Actress
DreamWorks Home Entertainment | Release Date: September 12, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
13
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Chicago TribuneKevin M. Williams
Fabulous for many reasons. Most important, this movie is Chiyoko's story, not an anime adventure. It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply. Read full review
91
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Deftly weaves history, film and memory into an imaginative meditation on why the movies become a part of our lives. Read full review
80
L.A. WeeklyDavid Chute
Satoshi innovates not by pushing off into more extreme realms of adolescent fantasy, but by using all the resources of animation to tell complex dramatic stories, resources that in his hands seem almost limitless. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
Millennium Actress fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
To watch Millennium Actress is to witness one cinematic medium celebrating another, an expression of movie love that is wonderfully eccentric and deeply affecting. Read full review
75
New York PostMegan Lehmann
It manages to be both kinetic and dream-like at the same time -- "Run Lola Run" by way of David Lynch. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The movie's narrative can be taxingly ornate, but there's something beautiful about its metaphorical conflation of politics and glamour, the real and the fictional. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
There isn't a film filled with richer, more colorfully imaginative images currently playing in theaters. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Although we never feel any true connection to the enigmatic actress, there's no denying the inventiveness of Kon's homage to the possibilities of cinema. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Animated in much the same style as "Perfect Blue," but with greater depth and a more elaborate sense of playfulness, Millennium Actress is a visual feast, but also a mental gymnastics routine. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Past and present, reality and fiction blend seamlessly into each other in Satoshi Kon's dream-like animated drama. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Millennium Actress has more layers to it than the proverbial onion, but Kon’s sure hand keeps things moving right along and into the next historical period. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
Millennium Actress is a quest for beauty and truth that is as wonderful to look at as it is gruelling to contemplate. Read full review
50
VarietyDerek Elley
Contains some brilliant invention between duller stretches. Read full review
40
Village VoiceBen Kenigsberg
Flashbacks integrate with scenes from her films, and it becomes difficult to discern between the two -- cinema is equated with memory. Unfortunately, the trippy disorientation ultimately devolves into outright confusion. Read full review
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