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'When Marnie Was There': My Girl October 15, 2015
The last Studio Ghibli film, at least for now, aims for the good-hearted timelessness of all the studio's best films, and by and large achieves it
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'Shangri-La': Up In Carbon-Traded Cloud-Cuckoo Land April 21, 2015
A wild grab bag of genres, influences, storylines, and ideas, 'Shangri-la' somehow manages to still work as entertainment even when it ought not to
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'Tokyo Ravens': Of Magic And The Mundane March 23, 2015
Shouldn't a show that entertains the idea that Japan's mystical past is an integral part of its present-day world not be so ... well, mundane?
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'The Eccentric Family': Tanuki & Sons March 13, 2015
One of the very few shows that gets it all right: funny, dazzling, charming, thoughtful, and sporting a cast of characters that never fail to enlist our sympathy and fascination
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Let's Animate This: 'Dogura Magura' January 30, 2015
Yumeno Kyusaku's masterpiece of surreal horror has been filmed, and even adapted to manga, but its dreamy evil makes it perfectly suited to an anime version
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