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Viewer Score

100
Viewer score based on 11 votes.

Critic Score

80
Critics' score based on 40 reviews.
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Your Reviews

This movie is a great piece of work. I highly recommend this movie because it is fun to watch and the detail is amazing. I believe it one of the best... movies I have ever seen. Full Review

July 30,2009
Muymucho

Excellent movie. Watch it every chance I get. I love Howl!

November 22,2008
Amorefelis

i love this movie its my fav I HEART HOWL

October 11,2008
Caitiecoola992

i loved this movie!!!I highly recomend it!

June 22,2008
POLEHOLDER
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Critic Reviews

Parse it any way you like, Miyazaki's gifts as an animator place him in a category of his own. To see his latest film is to be somehow reminded of Italians who could hear Verdi's operas as soon as they were sung or English readers who could experience the novels of Dickens episode by episode.Full Review

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

The worldview, the sense of childlike fun shaded with adult melancholy, and the joyful, serene attention to visual oddity and wordless beauty could only be made in Japan. And, specifically, made by Hayao Miyazaki.Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
Entertainment Weekly

Sophie, in both her incarnations, joins an impressive sisterhood of Miyazaki heroines, whose version of girl power presents a potent alternative to the mini-machismo that dominates American juvenile entertainment. Not that children are the only viewers likely to be haunted and beguiled by Howl's Moving Castle - all that is needed are open eyes and an open heart.Full Review

Dana Stevens
The New York Times

A moveable feast of delights.Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

Clever and often enchanting.Full Review

Claudia Puig
USA Today
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