I love this movie.

| Original Score: 8.7/10 | Mar 13, 2020

Weathering With You also explores the myriad effects of climate change on our industrialized society, but I think its message is one of simultaneous resignedness and hope.

| Feb 21, 2020

Makoto Shinkai's sixth feature-length cartoon, Weathering with You, oozes visual lyricism and primal yearning.

| Original Score: A- | Jan 24, 2020

This is the kind of film where viewers can let themselves flow with the film's emotion, or entirely ignore the action and just get lost in the beauty of the imagination. Either way, it's a luscious trip to take.

| Jan 21, 2020

Vividly contemporary-not an archetypal fable, but rather a compelling yarn about young people trying to live and love in an often hostile world of grown-ups

| Jan 20, 2020

Shinkai... has created another world to lose yourself in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 17, 2020

Weathering With You is a perfect entry point for animation fans who are still looking for the next big Pixar or Hayao Miyazaki.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2020

Shinkai's sensitive treatment of these real-world problems gives the fantasy of "Weathering With You" a thought-provoking edge many more lavish American animated films lack.

| Jan 17, 2020

A resplendent piece of anime art... Mr. Shinkai has marshaled more themes than he knows how to organize, but his film feels fresh and urgent.

| Jan 16, 2020

I loved Your Name, even as I recognized I was not the ideal target audience for it, and that's why I watched Weathering With You with that ideal target audience: a gaggle of teens.

| Jan 16, 2020

Shinkai may be dipping his toes in his own pre-tested global market. But Weathering With You rises gracefully above its copycat blueprint...

| Jan 16, 2020

Weathering With You comes across as YA in the best possible sense, in that the film's audience never has to stretch too far to get back to the feeling of being the age of its characters.

| Jan 16, 2020

As streets, homes, rooms and faces hurtle by, a textured world emerges detail by detail, one that looks like life yet is also expressionistic.

| Jan 16, 2020

Shinkai's animation is stunning, particularly in his depictions of a drowning, almost jungle-like Tokyo and in the ethereal inner ecosystems of omnipresent cumulonimbus clouds.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2020

It's thrillingly beautiful: Tokyo is animated in hyperreal intricacy, every dazzling detail dialled up to 11...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2020

By the end of Weathering With You, this has become a story about two people with their whole lives ahead of them, navigating their way through a future where they pine for things we all take for granted. Like, say, the simple pleasure of a sunny day.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 14, 2020

While it never fully gets the emotions jangling, there's charm to spare and the action is dynamic and occasionally thrilling.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2020

"Weathering With You" may not reach the heights of "Your Name," but it still achieves something impressive: It tells a story that, without sugarcoating the environmental challenges that lie ahead, manages to end on a hopeful note.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 14, 2020

Contemporary outrage could've potentially counterpointed the film's increasingly mawkish tendencies.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 13, 2020

Weathering With You once again exemplifies Makoto Shinkai's visionary prowess as an animator.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 13, 2020