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(1 - 14) of 14 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1   3/5 "Fails in one critical component: We are never made to care about the main character."   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null 4/4 "Behold Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon’s anime answer to Mulholland Drive."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "Unusual but woozily fascinating...if Kon's picture may not be a model of narrative coherence, it offers as compensation a large number of magical moments."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Millennium Actress is an enchanting Japanese animated film about a woman whose life is propelled by the yearning in her heart for a mysterious stranger."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 7/10 "The movie's outer spectacle works better than its story."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 31/100 "[It] would deserve credit for being more thematically ambitious than the average animated film if it incorporated those themes with any aplomb."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman B "This wonderfully unique film is classic anime, but its story is so ingenious, it seems a genre unto itself."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/5 "A lovely meditation on memory, movies and the almost magical power of images to fire the imagination and keep the hope of happiness and beauty alive in the face of real-life ugliness and despair."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "Delightfully warm and unexpectedly, deeply humanistic..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson A "The finest anime film I’ve ever seen."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager A- "“Millennium Actress” is about unrequited love, devotion, perseverance and hope told in a startlingly simple manner yet with epic proportions."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford A- "... Japan has always been more open to the possibilities of the medium to tell sophisticated, mature stories; and this is both, in the best sense of the definition."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3.5/4 "Like Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress is about living with ghosts, but where the one is all shadow, Millennium Actress is all alight."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 4/5 Read review   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten  (1 - 14) of 14 OFCS Rating: 86% Fresh Page   1