pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
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from 14 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
49
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
37
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.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 14 comments (14 from Metacritic) — 5 of them described how it moves.
Thin evidence — the shape below rests on 5 comments. The shaded band is how wide the uncertainty actually is, and it is drawn to scale.
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“It just... lingers and lingers, way beyond the point of watch-checking and brow-raising.”
drqshadow · Metacritic ↗
“a bit boring for adults to watch”
ProfAmateur · Metacritic ↗
“Whe the movie stared and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" started playing, I knew this was gonna be special.”
Mahmus · Metacritic ↗
“I enjoyed this movie start to finish and desperately watched the time as I did not want it to end.”
GriffinRoe · Metacritic ↗
“they could have easily shaved 5 minutes off of this film and still had it keep the slow pacing they were going for.”
Haydnengel · Metacritic ↗
Read 24 Aug 2026 · confidence 8% · too thin for a score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
“An affecting and endearing collaboration between Miyazaki and Kondo, it weds a coming-of-age story with a flight of fancy to good effect. Although often overshadowed by more popular titles in the Studio Ghibli catalog, this is as deserving as any 1990s Japanese animated film to be seen and enjoyed.”
James Berardinelli, ReelViews · 88
“Studio Ghibli productions have always been adept at making the fantastic seem real, but with Whisper Of The Heart, Kondo and Miyazaki focus so intensely on the everyday that they make the real seem fantastic.”
Noel Murray, The A.V. Club · 83
“A lovingly crafted and well observed story about adolescent self discovery – and to this day remains one of the most remarkable films produced by Studio Ghibli.”
Patrick Gamble, CineVue · 80
“Mr. Miyazaki wrote the screenplay for a love story about a shy girl and an aspiring violin maker (and a talking cat), but the result looks like a lot of non-Ghibli anime.”
Mike Hale, The New York Times · 60
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.
“It just... lingers and lingers, way beyond the point of watch-checking and brow-raising.”
drqshadowabout 66–100% inread it ↗
“a bit boring for adults to watch”
ProfAmateurabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Whe the movie stared and "Take Me Home, Country Roads" started playing, I knew this was gonna be special.”
Mahmusabout 0–10% inread it ↗
“I enjoyed this movie start to finish and desperately watched the time as I did not want it to end.”
GriffinRoeabout 0–100% inread it ↗
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