Studio Ghibli's When Marnie Was There is structured like a queer coming-of-age story, but the ending brings a surprise twist that changes everything. CBR Story by Kevin Melrose ...

The countryside always looks so much greener in a Studio Ghibli film. And so it is with When Marnie Was There, the latest animated feature from Arietty director Hiromasa Yonebayashi. It follows ...

They have, reasonably well, until now. The gentle supernatural fable "When Marnie Was There" is, for the moment, the final film from Studio Ghibli, which announced last September that it was ...

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. With its latest release — a non ...

Marnie takes a deep interest in Anna right from their first meeting, and her non-judgmental nature helps Anna open up to someone for the first time. There’s something otherworldly about Marnie ...

With Ghibli’s iconic and generation-defining movies, there are many beautiful films that go under the radar, especially in the West. Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s 2014 film “When Marnie was There ...

In the opening minutes of When Marnie Was There, 12-year-old Anna (Sara Takatsuki; Hailee Steinfeld in the English-dubbed version) sits on a park bench, sketching. She's isolated—her classmates are ...