Belle
critic Reviews
, 95% Certified Fresh Tomatometer Score- A remarkable story brought to life with dazzling animation, Belle finds writer-director Mamoru Hosoda setting a brilliant new benchmark.
- , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreSimran HansObserver (UK)
The film’s message is a beautiful one: to integrate our real-life vulnerabilities with the persona we project is to become all the more powerful.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKambole CampbellEmpire Magazine
Though it misses a couple of notes in its final act, it’s an exhilarating sensory experience, with great emotional depths.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePeter BradshawGuardian
There's some amazing big-screen spectacle in this weird postmodern emo photo-love drama...
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScorePaul ByrnesSydney Morning Herald
Wherever, it's a spectacular visual feast, based on the simplest of ideas: that a young girl's sadness at the death of her mother is a powerful thing.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreJoe MorgensternWall Street Journal
There's too much plot for the film to manage, but its heart, and sumptuous art, are so firmly in the right place that its appeal comes through sweet and clear.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreAlison WillmoreNew York Magazine/Vulture
Belle is Hosoda's eighth feature and the one that feels like the most coherent blend of the various universes he's straddled as an animator.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreZosha MillmanThirty, Flirty + Film
A little bit Apple shareholder meeting; a little Social Network; a dash of Disney Princess, and a massive helping of technofuturist anime possibility.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreLuis MartínezEl Mundo (Spain)
Belle is a reflection of the dangers of the internet, written with the essence of an ethereal story. [Full review in Spanish]
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreKevin HarleyRadio Times
With a multifaceted soundtrack boosting its emotional punch, Belle makes an old tale soar anew.
Read full article - , Fresh Tomatometer ScoreMatt RodgersFlickering Myth
Belle takes familiar tales as old as time and upgrades them with swipe-down social commentary in a modern tale of love, loss and identifiable insecurities. Its as touching and transcendent as filmmaking gets.
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