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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: It is vigorous, subtle, thematically daring, visually gorgeous. Read more
Wesley Morris, Grantland: The pastel palette bespeaks a determined, almost demented lightness. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Miyazaki offers a vivid, at times fantastical view of Japan between the wars, wracked by the Great Depression, a fearsome earthquake that leveled Tokyo in 1923, a tuberculosis epidemic and the rise of fascism. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: While it's not quite as magical as some of his previous films, it makes a fitting and often moving farewell. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: Hayao Miyazaki's hauntingly beautiful historical epic draws a sober portrait of Japan between the two World Wars. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: While The Wind Rises isn't top-shelf Miyazaki, it features more than enough gorgeous imagery to make his loss feel acute. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: The beauty of "The Wind Rises" - and it really is gorgeous - does not mask the troublesome aspects of its story, or of human nature itself. Read more
Jocelyn Noveck, Associated Press: All he wanted, Jiro ruminates in this film, was to create something beautiful. Which is, at least, a feat that director Miyazaki has achieved. Once again. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's a gorgeous, problematic anomaly in an illustrious career-a case of rapturous artistic blindness. Read more
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: The film is one of the most rapturously beautiful that Miyazaki has made, and all the more unsettling because of it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: If this is indeed Miyazaki's farewell, it's a fine one. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The great Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki has said that his new film The Wind Rises, will be his last. For all sorts of reasons, I hope this is not true. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: At 73, Miyazaki's farewell is many things -- gorgeous, beckoning, compassionate. For better and worse, it soars above child's play. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: When Jiro dreams, "Wind" soars; when he comes down to earth, the film can feel a bit stiff and murky. But then, that may be the point. Read more
Keith Staskiewicz, Entertainment Weekly: As gorgeously animated as any of his previous movies, Wind has Miyazaki trading in his more fantastical impulses for contemplative, old-fashioned drama and period detail. Read more
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter: A film about the beauty of flight and the prelude to war, whose astonishing visuals shout that life is wonderful. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: To see "The Wind Rises" is to simultaneously marvel at the work of a master and regret that this film is likely his last. Read more
Michael Nordine, L.A. Weekly: Its questionable subtext is less problematic than the fact that it simply isn't that moving. Read more
Richard Brody, New Yorker: The studied whimsy hits plot points on the nose and seems likelier to inspire calculation than imagination; rather than just telling a story of regimentation, the movie feels regimented. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: It's a gorgeous-looking, thoughtful epic, even if it falters at times. Read more
Nicolas Rapold, New York Times: "The Wind Rises," with its complex diminuendo, underlines Mr. Miyazaki's much longer, richly creative odyssey. Read more
Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: The movie's story and visuals are all of a piece. The incidents are layered; the wind reveals their secrets. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Wind Rises has the sweep and majesty of a Technicolor Hollywood classic. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: In terms of tone, visual beauty, and storytelling, The Wind Rises represents Miyazaki at the apex of his abilities. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The Wind Rises may come as a shock for fans of the kid-friendly, pro-feminist, deeply pacifist Miyazaki... It's a big story, and in this landmark film Miyazaki is up to every demand. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A work of immense mystery and strangeness, loaded with unforgettable images, spectacular sweeps of color and nested, hidden meanings. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: Miyazaki is arguably at the Kubrick/Polanski level, where his lesser films still yield great rewards. Even during the moments that don't soar, "The Wind Rises" continues tosatisfy. Read more
Dana Stevens, Slate: The Wind Rises has the historical sweep of a David Lean picture, complete with panoramic shots of migrating populations against a background of disaster ... Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Koreans, Chinese and others who experienced war atrocities at the hands of the Japanese have accused the film of political irresponsibility. But its real agenda, if you look carefully, is quite another matter. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The view is beautiful, but the loftier aims of "The Wind Rises" fall short. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: An ode to flight and a celebration of living with one's head in the clouds. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Miyazaki isn't taking sides, merely observing how the winds of fate often propel us into situations not entirely of our choosing and open to interpretation. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: 'Airplanes are beautiful dreams' is a phrase reprised throughout Hayao Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, and the same could be said about Miyazaki's films. Read more
Eric Hynes, Time Out: Even Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli wizardry can't ward off this story's jinxes. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: The film, like the wind it references, has wonderfully soaring sequences. Read more
Simon Abrams, Village Voice: An emotionally generous and expansively detailed romantic fantasy. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Everything is invested with spirit: levers, flaps, and, of course, the wind. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Visually, "The Wind Rises" is a thing of sensual, contemplative poetry, from the pearlescent cloudscapes and verdant countryside of Horikoshi's youth to the hulking gray factories he visits in prewar Germany as a young man. Read more