Beautifully animated (we're talking Studio Ghibli standards here), Your Name captures that sensation of waking up from a dream you wish lasted longer, or misplacing a name that's still warm on your tongue, but has just departed.

| May 1, 2017

By the time Your Name reaches its moving finale, the Next Big Thing tag doesn't seem quite enough for Shinkai. He's arrived already.

| Apr 11, 2017

By the time Your Name reaches its final half-hour or so, the film has moved so far beyond its initial premise that if you think back to the beginning, you'll be astonished by how far it's come.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 10, 2017

It's both gorgeous enough and emotionally engaging enough to be worth seeking out.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 7, 2017

Throughout, there is the nagging sense that the whole thing will unravel if any one thread gets tugged too hard, but when both the heart and the sky are on fire, why lean in and go squinting at flaws?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 7, 2017

You may have to fortify your illogicality tolerance when viewing the anime adventure "Your Name." But this body-swap romance by the exciting and talented filmmaker Makoto Shinkai is nonetheless exquisite, beautiful and entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2017

With its balance of grounded emotion and wondrous escapism, Your Name should firmly establish Shinkai as an auteur to follow for many years to come.

| Apr 7, 2017

This concept could be used for stock shenanigans worthy of a John Green novel, but Shinkai unleashes a twist early on so clever and cerebral that J.J. Abrams and Christopher Nolan will kick themselves for not thinking of it first.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2017

It's thoroughly charming and gently comic and, if Mr. Shinkai finally plays it safe about what it means for an adolescent boy and girl to trade bodies and lightly toy with gender, he complicates the story in other ways.

| Apr 6, 2017

Your Name is a stirring tale of rescue with a boisterous edge of YA mischief. It's also a love story with a swoony romantic affinity for the age-old tussle between chance and fate.

| Apr 6, 2017

Your Name takes an unexpected turn, and what a turn it is. It transcends the mundane, and becomes more emotionally compelling than any animated movie you've seen since Inside Out.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 6, 2017

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 6, 2017

The movie's spirit is by turns energetic and serene, impetuous and wise, its wild shifts from comedy to tragedy to romance revealing themselves not as tonal swings so much as variations in a larger cosmic pattern.

| Apr 6, 2017

It's only barely a romance, bypassing much of that familiar territory to explore something much more intimate and strange.

| Apr 6, 2017

A beautiful, captivating piece of work that gets off to kind of a rocky start but achieves remarkable momentum toward an emotional, powerful ending.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 6, 2017

The way Masashi depicts wind blowing through grass or a falling star illuminating the sky makes any dream, however convoluted, seem real.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 6, 2017

As pleasing as some aspects of "Your Name" can be, there's no question Shinkai's overstuffed movie often trips over itself.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 5, 2017

One can see the influence of Hiyao Miyazaki here - this is way more "Spirited Away" than "Ghost in the Shell" - but Shinkai also goes off into his own, weird direction.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2017

Your Name is the most beautiful anime since Patema Inverted, with which it shares themes about the difficulties of personal connections as represented by inexplicable cosmic phenomena.

| Apr 4, 2017

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 2, 2017