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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallPut simply, Mind Game is a mind-blowing experience.
- 80Village VoiceSimon AbramsVillage VoiceSimon AbramsThe exhilarating Japanese animated coming-of-age fantasy Mind Game plays out like a hallucinogen-fueled shaggy-dog joke that only ends after twenty-year-old horndog Nishi (Kôji Imada) discovers that the world does not revolve around him.
- 70VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibBrain-teasing, wildly unpredictable animated feature.
- 60The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensA sometimes enthralling, sometimes exhausting tour de force.
- 60Village VoiceVillage VoiceAll scrunched together into a dense marathon of optical-cranial overload, this mental puzzle-box arrives three decades too late for what would have been an inevitable midnight movie run, but undoubtedly there are American otakus popping this one into multi-region DVD players right now amid the glorbeling of bong hits.
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghA virtuoso experiment in animation that combines traditional anime aesthetics style with a variety of Western animation styles.