If there is a problem with the film, it’s in the manner in which Miyazaki seems to side-step broader issues about Japanese imperialism and World War II.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 23, 2024

“The Wind Rises” is, fortunately, the perfect sum of each of its specific, lovingly crafted aspects.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 20, 2024

The entire film is beautiful in a way that is unique to old-school hand-drawn animation and Miyazaki applies his visual imagination to a realistic drama, giving it the romanticized imagery of Jiro’s hopeful perspective...

| Jan 6, 2024

Almost as if something out of a Japanese elementary school history class, Miyazaki’s last Studio Ghibli film leaves me with a great sense of numbness rather than the invigorating wonder I have come to expect from the master of anime.

| Aug 1, 2023

The Wind Rises undoubtedly stands out as a film with an incredible amount of passion and inspiration behind it, bringing to life a story that stays with audiences and engages them on a deeply personal level.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 28, 2022

A fascinating last film for Hayao Miyazaki and a swan song that seems to encapsulate the animator’s recurrent autobiographical strains in largely real-world terms.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2022

We have the master acknowledging that which has inspired his greatness.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020

A valentine to the creative spirit.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 26, 2020

The Wind Rises is gorgeous filmmaking from one of the greatest animators of all time.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2019

With a remarkable plastic beauty, everything that frames the action of 'The Wind Rises' is of an overwhelming visual virtuosity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 7, 2019

Miyazaki is a master, and The Wind Rises is a tender, loving farewell to a truly glorious career.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Jul 4, 2019

Like its protagonist, and its auteur, these are tender and gentle brushes of exquisite genius.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 11, 2019

It does have a lot of really lovely sequences.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2019

Miyazaki's swansong is every bit as masterful as Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, tempered only by a bittersweet sadness which runs throughout.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 21, 2019

I don't doubt the sincerity of Miyazaki's pacifism but I'm appalled by his abstract vision. Like, how many tens or hundreds of thousands of real people in Asia and the Pacific were de-animated thanks to [Jiro] Horikoshi's dreams?

| Feb 22, 2019

It is everything Miyazaki loves and does best on full display.

| Jan 18, 2019

On the subject of less is more, the film shines in smaller moments.

| Oct 10, 2018

This is not a cartoon for children, but a vision both beautiful and horrific of the promise and perils of art.

| Aug 31, 2018

This is apparently Miyazaki's final film: a delicate and eerie treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 5, 2018

Miyazaki delivers a moving love story... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 12, 2017