Your Name

Using sliding doors as a recurring motif to signify its frequent shifts in time (in homage, no doubt, to the 1998 parallel-universe romantic drama of that name), the film requires a degree of patience, particularly in the understandably confusing first half-hour during which Mitsuha and Taki stumble through their waking daydreams.

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Japan's biggest hit in 2016 and the highest-grossing anime film of all time, Makoto Shinkai's lush mindbender Your Name has many elements that are familiar on their own but here combine to create something unique.

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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.

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Rising anime talent Makoto Shinkai concocts an outlandish — and enormously entertaining — romance whose central couple spontaneously begins body-swapping.

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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.

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Freaky Friday meets Nicholas Sparks in the record-breaking anime Your Name.

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Two body-swapping teens face an eco-disaster in Makoto Shinkai’s runaway anime hit.

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Even at its most outrageously bizarre, Your Name is bound together by a passionately romantic core.

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Though a smash in Japan, Makoto Shinkai’s animation about two youngsters who swap bodies loses momentum – he’s not up to Miyazaki’s standard yet.

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Your Name is still highly watchable, even when this mystical Young Adult love story cloys — or confounds.

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Makoto Shinkai’s overly complicated anime feature buries an original story about body-swapping teens in a pile of science-fiction tropes.

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