pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
78
from 30 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
30
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
50
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
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Read from 30 comments (27 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) — 7 of them described how it moves.
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“perhaps too much time, esp in first half”
BradleyS · Metacritic ↗
“the movie starts really hard with a considerable amount of emotions”
clem666 · Metacritic ↗
“a final act that will cause more of one tear”
alejandro970 · Metacritic ↗
“The story at the start and end was very interesting”
killerofdeth · Metacritic ↗
“the middle part was only ok”
killerofdeth · Metacritic ↗
“The story at the start and end was very interesting”
killerofdeth · Metacritic ↗
Read 24 Aug 2026 · confidence 44% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“There is a quality of enchantment to When Marnie Was There that can’t be faked, and that the studio behind this animated feature is justifiably famous for.”
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post · 100
“The animation is dazzling.”
Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly · 83
“Yonebayashi’s open-hearted tale, more than any other Ghibli offering, could conceivably have worked just as well in live-action, and yet the tender story gains so much from the studio’s delicate, hand-crafted approach.”
Peter Debruge, Variety · 80
“At its most beautiful, Yonebayashi's picture is about the magic of female friendship at its purest.”
Sherilyn Connelly, Village Voice · 80
“It’s a quiet film of modest narrative ambitions and simple shifts. But its technical and visual ambitions couldn’t be higher. It’s as if Ghibli is still trying to raise its own bar, so that even if it’s going out, it’s reminding viewers what they’d be missing.”
Tasha Robinson, The Dissolve · 80
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 24 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“perhaps too much time, esp in first half”
BradleySabout 0–50% inread it ↗
“the movie starts really hard with a considerable amount of emotions”
clem666about 0–15% inread it ↗
“a final act that will cause more of one tear”
alejandro970about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The story at the start and end was very interesting”
killerofdethabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“This is a very beautiful animated film from Studio Ghibli, possibly the last one to com out of Studioe Ghibli for some time or last one ever. It is about Anna, a young girl that we learn has asthma and is feeling very alone. She is sent to relatives in the country to recuperate from severe sickness. Once there she meets another young girl, who is blond and also has beautiful blue eyes like Anna. Anna feels real connection to this girl. During the film we learn more and more about Anna and ”
Ewa Wimanread it ↗
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