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Metascore
26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe beauty of the feature lies in its ability to stir the imagination with eerie, resonant hand-drawn animation.
- 100The TelegraphRobbie CollinThe TelegraphRobbie CollinThe only way to understand it is to swim in it for yourself, feel your own heart braid around these two interwoven lives, and gaze up in awe at the silvery arc those falling stars trace across the sky.
- 100Total FilmKevin HarleyTotal FilmKevin HarleyPrepare to be spirited away. A brain-scrambler to make hearts swell, Shinkai’s giddy romance brims with emotion and invention.
- 80VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThis vividly realized and emotionally satisfying feature ought to make Shinkai a household name — certainly in Japan, and with any luck, in other countries as well.
- 75IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichLike all of Shinkai’s films, the richness of the light coats everything it touches with such an evocative hue of nostalgia that the plot only puts a damper on things (and there’s a lot of plot here).
- 67The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThe A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThere’s admittedly a certain pleasure in the deft fake-out that Shinkai executes here—most viewers will automatically make an assumption that’s ultimately proven wrong—but it comes at the cost of overall narrative incoherence.
- 63Slant MagazineKenji FujishimaSlant MagazineKenji FujishimaEven at its most outrageously bizarre, Your Name is bound together by a passionately romantic core.
- 60The GuardianMike McCahillThe GuardianMike McCahillThis thoroughly emo body-swap fantasia, a sizable hit on home turf, demonstrates that [Makoto Shinkai] inherited much of his [Hayao Miyazaki's] artistry and charm, but not yet his narrative mastery – nor, crucially, that magic that distinguishes lasting artworks from well-drawn ’toons for teens.