I feel you

Kimi no na wa. (Your name.)

Crit

So many clichés lurk, so many traps loom when your themes include:

1. soulmates
2. soul sharing
3. déjà vu
4. time shifting, especially
5. time shifting to undo a past disaster

Yet this animated adaptation of a novel by the director, Makoto Shinkai, skates around all the potholes to be one of the smartest, most original, most moving, and most visually beautiful films to employ those well-worn tropes. A meteoric, yet quiet, stunner.

Trailers

• Leap!--Kids with dreams, animated.
• Spark--Monkey with dreams, animated.
• Everything, Every Thing--I think the second iteration is supposed to be meaningfully split into 2 words, though the online sources don't support my perception. Anyway, another teen with a medical problem that keeps her in a parent-bubble until the arrival of a liberator of the opposite sex (and here, different race). I shouldn't be so cynical--I've loved 1 or 2 of those pics--but this looks unlikely to rise above the goo.