“Stingy with the stunts…”

“…allows Indy to nobly, creakily hang up his hat and whip, leaving the rest of us in an increasingly exhausted multiverse of capes and cowls.”

“An expansion of the first film aesthetically, emotionally, thematically, and spiderly…”

“Another imaginative, emotive, and astonishingly animated fantasia from Makoto Shinkai…”

“…takes its fantasy world seriously, but not itself.”

“…a combination of those exploitative ads from animal shelters and the Japanese body-horror endurance test Tetsuo: The Iron Man.”

“…benefits hugely from the addition of martial-arts master Donnie Yen.”

“Mr. Smith goes West, rather than to Washington.”

“…unspools images that are as evocative as the movie’s title.”

“…enough oogly landscapes and googly creatures to power two Star Wars pictures and half a Dune.”