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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

January 2020

  • Monumental animation that speaks to the climate crisis … Princess Mononoke.

    Ranked
    Every Studio Ghibli film – ranked!

    In a bonus edition, we rank all the animated films – from Spirited Away to Ponyo – by the revered Japanese studio, most of which will be available on Netflix from February

December 2015

  • Christmas Carol … Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett are both nomination for Critics’ Choice awards.

    Carol leads nominations for UK Critics' Circle awards

    Todd Haynes’s forbidden-romance drama emerges as main contender, with seven nods, followed by 45 Years, Mad Max, The Revenant and Steve Jobs

July 2015

  • Princess Kaguya

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    The Tale of the Princess Kaguya; A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence; P’tit Quinquin; The Voices; X+Y; The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death – review

    Studio Ghibli’s penultimate film is a beautiful, melancholic fairytale, while Roy Andersson finds a perverse hope in life’s futility

March 2015

  • Top of the pile … Oh, left, and Tip in a scene from Home.

    Box office analysis: UK
    Home sweet at UK box office while older children rush to Insurgent

  • The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

    The Tale of the Princess Kaguya review – lush imagery with narrative longueurs