Review: Makoto Shinkai's "Suzume" is a beautiful career summation
A deeply felt and stunningly realized slice of big-screen pop entertainment
Whether or not it’s his ‘best’ film, Suzume definitely feels to me like the film Makoto Shinkai has been building towards his entire career. It is a clear culmination to the loose trilogy that started with 2016’s Your Name and continued in 2019’s Weathering With You, both stories about adolescents encountering each other amidst magical realist circumsta…
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