Mirai's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
This feels like 2018?s most emotionally resonant animated release: Hosoda?s stirring take on memory and the collection of affection-driven choices that make us who we are merit comparison to works of similar relevance and poetic ambitions, like Hirokazu Kore-eda?s 'Shoplifters' and Alfonso Cuarón?s 'Roma'.
Variety
Woven throughout all of Hosoda?s films has been a special attention to the kind of connections that define a family, though this is the first time the writer-director has so directly addressed the change that can affect those dynamics. Here, Hosoda takes a realistic premise and sprinkles it with fantastical details that should feel intuitive for fans of his work
The Hollywood Reporter
The complex, sometimes fraught relationship between older and younger siblings is mapped with kindness, imagination and wit in 'Mirai', from Japanese writer-director Hosoda Mamoru, the founder of production house Studio Chizu.
Screen Daily
Visually striking throughout, the film boasts several stand-out moments, the most notable of which is a child?s eye view of a teeming Tokyo train station, full of neon, rattling trains and faceless danger. While perhaps not the most ambitious anime in terms of story, 'Mirai' is a work of heart-swelling beauty and considerable charm.
The Guardian
'Mirai' definitely puts Hosoda in the Japanese industry?s top league, showing a similar spirit of high-blown romanticism as 'Your Name' (2016). It doesn?t, though, quite have the same degree of narrative mastery.