After 35 years, there's nothing more comforting or moving than returning to one of Studio Ghibli's most enduring coming-of-age narratives.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 25, 2024

Kiki’s Delivery Service is an entertaining watch with stunning visuals and one important message for everyone to stay true to their core selves, gain independence early on, try new things and explore.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 25, 2024

Kiki’s Delivery Service might appear to be “kid’s stuff,” something adults could never sink their teeth into or reflect upon as serious cinema—such a misreading disappears after one screening of Miyazaki’s observant, sensitive film.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 22, 2023

Kiki’s Delivery Service’ captures the imaginations of young viewers while imploring the older among them to let common sense go in order to enjoy the pop music and irrefutable heart.

| Aug 1, 2023

Enjoyable.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2021

Miyazaki conjures a pubescent fable out of whole cloth that both kids and adults will enjoy immensely, and with the late Phil Hartman on board as Kiki's wiseacre feline familiar, there's many more comic moments than in the director's later work.

| Jun 11, 2020

"Kiki's Delivery Service" is more than a place to park the kids for two hours - it is a surprisingly moving celebration of the animator's art that deserves a wider audience.

| Jun 11, 2020

One of Miyazaki's most fanciful stories, Kiki's Delivery Service may seem on the surface to be just another simple, heartwarming fantasy tale, but it has some serious undertones that can't be easily dismissed.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 11, 2020

Even by Hayao Miyazaki's elevated standard, Kiki's Delivery Service is a singularly charming film.

| Jun 11, 2020

Kiki's slow pace and light-on-conflict plot may surprise kids... but it's difficult not to be won over by the film's endearing characters and beautiful animation, as well as a storyline that stresses the values of independence and friendship.

| Jun 11, 2020

Kiki, like My Neighbor Totoro, is simply delightful in most every way - the characters are sweet and memorable, there is a bit of action, and it is consistently funny.

| Jun 11, 2020

It's a delightful tale of a young witch coming of age, learning to recognize her own talents, and striving to serve her community.

| Feb 28, 2020

The first aspect that the producer pampered to extraordinary limits was the plastic beauty of the animation. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 27, 2019

Kiki has given girls another way to express themselves and a whole new set of aspirations. She's achieved the artistic dream, not only finding a way to fly higher but encouraging others to do so as well.

| May 13, 2019

It's a really wonderful little film.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 21, 2019

All of it is just beautiful.

| Aug 20, 2018

Kiki is at that difficult age where she teeters constantly brazen overconfidence and frustrating self-doubt. It's an age that many parents fear, but it's handled gracefully in Kiki's Delivery Service.

| Oct 17, 2017

Repeated viewings will only add to the pleasure -- and rest assured, there were probably be many of those.

| Aug 24, 2017

The film becomes a benign guided tour of femininity ... gently broaching universal coming-of-age issues such as independence, insecurity, and even - more boldly than any Western children's movie would contemplate - sexuality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2016

Miyazaki's giddy, glorious seaside story about a budding young witch and her sarcastic cat.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 24, 2016