“Studio Ghibli has produced one animated classic after another, but Spirited Away is the one that goes into the vault. Part fantasy, part adventure, part dream, and part metaphor, Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece follows a 10-year-old girl who's forced to work in a extra-dimensional bath-house for ghosts and demons after a mysterious spell turns her parents into pigs.
"Scarcely a minute of this movie goes by without some kind of strange or scary vision, dredged up directly from Miyazaki's subconscious — including floating frogs, oozing stink-gods, chattering skull-phones, and trains that glide across the water. It's all held together by a thrilling and poignant story, about a kid on the cusp of adulthood, discovering how complicated it can be to live in a world that's constantly changing.” - Rolling Stone
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