
The movie follows a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister in the family, until things turn magical. A mysterious garden in the backyard of the boy's home becomes a gateway allowing the child to travel back in time and encounter his mother as a little girl and his great-grandfather as a young man. These fantasy-filled adventures allow the child to change his perspective and help him become the big brother he was meant to be.... (Full plot summary below)
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The movie follows a 4-year old boy who is struggling to cope with the arrival of a little sister in the family, until things turn magical. A mysterious garden in the backyard of the boy's home becomes a gateway allowing the child to travel back in time and encounter his mother as a little girl and his great-grandfather as a young man. These fantasy-filled adventures allow the child to change his perspective and help him become the big brother he was meant to be.
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| Zippy FramesVassilis KroustallisA gentle family comedy of manners, which really takes off at the film's final reels. Without being groundbreaking, it still provides a wormhole to look further away than your own courtyard. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Robbie CollinMirai bathes ordinary family life in a beautiful new light. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA soaringly beautiful film, as open-aired and pulsingly rhythmic as the best anime. |
| Japan TimesMatt SchleyI think "Mirai" is, despite its family-size stakes, daring. It's this decision to portray the very real feelings and actions of a jealous child from that child's point of view that makes the film so admirable. |
| The Daily DotGavia Baker-WhitelawMirai is heartwarming without being cloyingly sentimental, a charming and often laugh-out-loud funny story about a young sibling rivalry. |
| Sight and SoundAndrew OsmondMirai is admirable as a creative experiment by a popular director who's demonstrably still restless. |
| ChrisStuckmann.comChris StuckmannThere's a lot of narrative jump-rope to get through, but it's still enchanting and brave. |
| TheWrapCarlos AguilarBreathing rare emotional truth into on-screen depictions of small children and the parents who raise them, Hosoda’s unassumingly sumptuous Mirai is a hand-drawn miracle, rivaling Pixar and Ghibli’s efforts to devise family entertainment with a complex and humanistic edge. |
| The Movie CricketSean P. MeansThrough it all, Hosoda tells a rich and warm-hearted story about a middle-class family that is imperfect but loving. |
| Cinema AxisCourtney SmallThough Hosoda's heart is in the right place, the repetitive nature of Kun's journey makes Mirai tiresome instead of magical. |