Big ambitions inspire great designs; little things bring them to life. Nausicaa has both in abundance.
100
Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
The action sequences are as suspenseful as any in the director's career; the most impressive scenes, though, may be the slower ones, which consider how humanity might evolve after driving itself to near extinction.
Hayao Miyazaki’s animated adventure, from 1984, is a magnificent anomaly—a rousing vision of scorched earth.
90
Time Out
Time Out
Stellar stuff.
80
EmpireWilliam Thomas
EmpireWilliam Thomas
Dreamlike Ghibli animation that's well worth seeking out.
75
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
The film is good-hearted, energetic, and full of Ghibli's characteristically beautiful hand-rendered animation, but it's also lightweight and hyper, with none of Miyazaki's more resonant themes.