Anime / Animation

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  Lonely Castle in the Mirror

  A worthy adaptation of the smash-hit novel…

  
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  Blue Giant

  A solid but familiar tale of a young band finding success…

  
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  Art College 1994

  Another instant classic from China’s animation auteur could be the highlight of this year’s NYAFF…

  
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  Junji Ito Maniac

  Netflix brings some of the legendary horror mangaka’s work to the screen, with varying results…

  
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  Blue Thermal

  Telecom Animation’s new release is a guide to gliding which makes the mundane seem magical…

  
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  Inu-oh

  A blind boy meets a cursed beast, and the beauty of making music with monsters…

  
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  Belle

  Hosoda’s take on Beauty and the Beast is nothing short of sensational…

  
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  Climbing

  Paranoia reigns supreme in a visually striking debut feature…

  
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  Junk Head

  Simply astounding, Takahide Hori’s stop-frame animated feature debut…

  
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  Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train

  Now Japan’s highest-grossing film, will this series become a masterpiece or mainstream?…

  
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  Luginsky

  Bizarre yet mesmerising experimental animation…

  
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  Moriarty the Patriot

  The Napoleon of Crime against the British class system…

  
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  White Snake

  Way better than expected, a classic Chinese tale is repackaged as a beautifully animated action-fantasy…

  
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  Beauty Water

  Cho Kyung-hun debuts with an animated horror including some of the most intense body-horror sequences seen this year…

  
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  Kiangnan 1894

  Chinese animation following a young boy who dreams of becoming a mechanical engineer in late 19^th Century Shanghai…

  
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  Akira

  The gorgeous 4K remaster of Katushiro Otomo’s animated sci-fi classic hits UK screens…

  
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  Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or Bottom?

  Underwhelming and not that original, the animation is the only redeeming feature of this disappointing film…