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Maboroshi

2023 1h 51m Drama Fantasy Romance Anime TRAILER for List
67% Tomatometer 9 Reviews 66% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving 14-year-old Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
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Nelson Acosta Koimoi MAPPA, The king of modern anime is back with an original anime film but the story is convoluted and lacks impact. Rated: 2.5/5 Jul 3, 2024 Full Review James Marsh South China Morning Post Ultimately, Maboroshi emerges as one giant, lumbering metaphor for the trials and tribulations of adolescence, devoid of subtlety and likely to exasperate older viewers who have long outgrown such trivial insecurities. Rated: 2/5 Feb 5, 2024 Full Review Charles Solomon FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles) The storyline is a little more convoluted than it needs to be and the film is a little longer than it needs to be, but that image of a life that just continues so drearily and endlessly without any change is quite chilling. Feb 1, 2024 Full Review JK Sooja Common Sense Media Also painfully slow, melodramatic, and long, this perplexing drama will make most viewers feel like they are also frozen in time. Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Elijah Gonzalez Paste Magazine Part elegy and part celebration of the past, it makes for an evocative, unusual ghost tale. Rated: 7.9/10 Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Mariló Delgado Espinof Maboroshi is a cerebral film, with a continuous tone of nostalgia that (honestly) has to catch you in the right frame of mind so it doesn't leave you wrecked and feeling like a stew. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 4/5 Jan 17, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Amine T It's great anime at first it's hard to understand story but when you understands it's make you smile and cry at that same time. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/09/24 Full Review Jackson M Sloppy storytelling kills it. The supposed driving force in the story, the explosion, happens in the first few minutes but then it's treated like a mediocre afterthought. It's frustratingly unclear throughout what exactly's going on, and that's not due to plot twists; the writers weren't focused on what they wanted to matter to the audience. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 07/18/24 Full Review Jhosep G This movie gets perfectly the struggles and worries teenagers have. It is highly relatable in it's own unique way. It keeps the viewer waiting for a scare jump, for the moment of a next revelation and then gratifies them with the development of the story and how the conflict is solved. Will definitely rewatch someday. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/28/24 Full Review Jay W Without spoiling anything, I really liked the concept and found it interesting. I didn't like the relationship between the mc and the younger girl though. If you watch it you'll probably realize why later T-T. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 05/16/24 Full Review LABEL 2 5+1/10。主旨混沌交错、晦暗不明,同时糅合了青春成长之痛、禁忌之恋、追思逝者和逃避现实等多种要素之后影片的内核被高度稀释,最终成了完全依赖于高质量作画和背景美术的平庸之作。这种模棱两可的表达,无论是面向现实的“后311”“后疫情”还是面向虚构的“青春伤痛”,都是绵软无力的。画面表现力加一分。 Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/30/24 Full Review Alejandro E The animation style is pleasant, as is the plot with a certain melancholic flavor; What almost caused a short circuit is the tangled nature of its development. Luckily, it is still an option for a weekend. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 04/20/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A factory explosion plunges a small town into a timeless freeze, leaving 14-year-old Masamune and his pals to grapple with a quickly collapsing reality.
Director
Mari Okada, Seimei Kidokoro
Producer
Manabu Ohtsuka
Screenwriter
Mari Okada
Distributor
Netflix
Production Co
Legs, MAPPA, Dentsu, Mainichi Newspapers, Nature Lab., Cygames, Movic, Bushiroad, Kadokawa, Warner Bros. Pictures Japan, Lawson Group
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Anime
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 15, 2024
Runtime
1h 51m
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