Your Name.
FUNimation Entertainment | Release Date: April 7, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
23
Mixed:
2
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Austin ChronicleSteve DavisApr 5, 2017
Given its nonlinear structure, Your Name requires your trust, but once you place your faith in screenwriter/director Shinkai’s expert hands, the reward will come. (Not surprisingly, the film is the fourth-highest-grossing film in Japan’s history.) Read full review
100
Total FilmKevin HarleyNov 14, 2016
Prepare to be spirited away. A brain-scrambler to make hearts swell, Shinkai’s giddy romance brims with emotion and invention. Read full review
100
EmpireDan JolinNov 14, 2016
Part body-swap comedy, part long-distance romance, part... something else. If you only see one Japanese animated feature this year, see this one, and see it more than once. Read full review
100
The TelegraphRobbie CollinNov 3, 2016
The only way to understand it is to swim in it for yourself, feel your own heart braid around these two interwoven lives, and gaze up in awe at the silvery arc those falling stars trace across the sky. Read full review
100
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungNov 1, 2016
The beauty of the feature lies in its ability to stir the imagination with eerie, resonant hand-drawn animation. Read full review
91
ConsequenceDominick Suzanne-MayerApr 9, 2017
Your Name is the kind of film that’s all the more striking for how easily it could have gone awry, but Shinkai has accomplished something unique and genuinely special here. Read full review
91
The Film StageJared MobarakApr 5, 2017
Shinkai’s film opens up from cute stranger-in-a-strange-body antics and expands into a philosophical and metaphysical parable about fate. Read full review
90
NPRBob MondelloApr 7, 2017
Taki and Mitsuha think they're dreaming, and after about the first 40 minutes of their shimmering film, you may think you are, too. Read full review
90
Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyApr 6, 2017
Makoto Shinkai's lush mindbender Your Name has many elements that are familiar on their own but here combine to create something unique. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangApr 6, 2017
The movie’s spirit is by turns energetic and serene, impetuous and wise, its wild shifts from comedy to tragedy to romance revealing themselves not as tonal swings so much as variations in a larger cosmic pattern. Read full review
88
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 12, 2017
There’s never been much more than a fringe audience for anime in the U.S., which suggests that Hollywood might not be long in taking a live-action shot at this story. But whatever the budget, whoever the stars, they’ll have to go some ways to top the magic managed by artists and their brushes spelling out Your name. Read full review
88
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Andrew ParkerApr 6, 2017
Shinkai unleashes a twist early on so clever and cerebral that J.J. Abrams and Christopher Nolan will kick themselves for not thinking of it first. That twist turns things from a teen film to an adult film. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoApr 6, 2017
It’s a beautiful, captivating piece of work that gets off to kind of a rocky start but achieves remarkable momentum toward an emotional, powerful ending. And you won’t see a better-looking animated film all year. Read full review
80
The New York TimesManohla DargisApr 6, 2017
The beauty of Your Name is that, as in the best animated movies, the thin black lines of the character design invariably dissolve, and all that remains are Taki and Mitsuha, thoroughly mixed-up teenagers. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaApr 6, 2017
Perhaps a less uplifting ending may have seemed more honest. But Shinkai’s a romantic at heart, and it’s infectious. By the end, you just want these two crazy kids to get together, no matter whose bodies they’re in. Read full review
80
Screen DailyWendy IdeNov 1, 2016
This is a film which handles its high concept with confidence, and a winning balance of comedy and emotional punch. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeNov 1, 2016
This vividly realized and emotionally satisfying feature ought to make Shinkai a household name — certainly in Japan, and with any luck, in other countries as well. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliSep 21, 2018
Although there are times when the story loses its focus (mostly during the scattershot and occasionally confusing second half), the overall impression is one of satisfaction and the animation is better than anything to emerge from Japan since Miyazaki “retired.” Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonApr 6, 2017
One can see the influence of Hayao Miyazaki here — this is way more “Spirited Away” than “Ghost in the Shell” — but Shinkai also goes off into his own, weird direction. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichDec 22, 2016
Like all of Shinkai’s films, the richness of the light coats everything it touches with such an evocative hue of nostalgia that the plot only puts a damper on things (and there’s a lot of plot here). Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloApr 5, 2017
There’s admittedly a certain pleasure in the deft fake-out that Shinkai executes here—most viewers will automatically make an assumption that’s ultimately proven wrong—but it comes at the cost of overall narrative incoherence. Read full review
63
Boston GlobePeter KeoughApr 6, 2017
Being cluttered isn’t the only problem with Your Name. It also features insipid characters and dippy montage music from the J-pop band Radwimps. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaApr 2, 2017
Even at its most outrageously bizarre, Your Name is bound together by a passionately romantic core. Read full review
60
The GuardianMike McCahillNov 20, 2016
This thoroughly emo body-swap fantasia, a sizable hit on home turf, demonstrates that [Makoto Shinkai] inherited much of his [Hayao Miyazaki's] artistry and charm, but not yet his narrative mastery – nor, crucially, that magic that distinguishes lasting artworks from well-drawn ’toons for teens. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanApr 6, 2017
Your Name is still highly watchable, even when this mystical Young Adult love story cloys — or confounds. Read full review
38
The Seattle TimesTom KeoghApr 6, 2017
That’s a lot for a viewer to take in, and as pleasing as some aspects of Your Name can be, there’s no question Shinkai’s overstuffed movie often trips over itself. Read full review
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