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Your Name (Kimi No Na Wa) tells the story of two teenagers with vastly different backgrounds. One is a boy who lived in Tokyo and has the word "city" described all around him. One is a girl who lived in rural town far from technology and anything interesting. One morning, somehow, they found out that they have swapped bodies. Together, they must help each other find solution in daily life problems, and solve the mystery of the reason why this whole conundrum started.

This may sound like your typical body-swap romantic comedy situation, but you may find yourself on the wrong side of the spectrum as this movie takes you into an incredible journey. With a storytelling so divine, complex, yet understandable, this movie captures the essence of what romantic comedy movies have lost nowadays, a heart and a charm to lure you in.

Japanese animation movies tend to have a bit of a stereotype, but the movie successfully shown very little of that. Transitioning from one scene to the other effortlessly, Radwimps deserves an incredible applause for their talents in the movie, as every song and every score fits perfectly to the scene currently shown.

Although the movie does end in a predictable way, the voyage to that predictable end is more than enough to keep you satisfied. There are some usage of stock characters and several clichés throughout, something that maybe will drive some of the audiences away or cloud their judgment. But beside all that, the story is still original and well executed.

What seems to be a silly premise evolved into something even more trifling. But with its unbearable charm, it worked astonishingly well.

32-year old spinster and lunatic Bridget Jones is alone and aloof, living in London with no love to call her own. She made a resolution to start writing in a diary, promising herself to get better physically and simultaneously dealt with other life problems. Things start to change this year when she met two men that somehow gravitated towards her but despised each other's company.

Romantic comedies usually suffer from the case of a predictable plot and generic characters. This movie doesn't escape those stereotypes either. Packed with a clever script and solid execution, this movie tiptoes the romantic parts and the comedic ones. Some moments were definitely a bit too sweet to be true and too wacky of a comedy, yet somehow it has all the right twists and turns of a movie that will keep you glued. Sure, it has a big unnecessary subplot just to fill the empty duration, but with a supporting cast this strong, I wouldn't mind having to take a break from all the love triangle that was going on.

Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth may not have that strong of a chemistry, but throw Hugh Grant into the mix and somehow all three of them play each other off really well. Zellweger particularly went lengths for this movie, and I must applaud her for her impeccable comedic timing and sweet charm that lured me into liking her careless, clueless character.

It was a sweet romantic comedy for a date night, but don't expect anything original or mind-blowing about it. It's still just a fun romantic comedy, amazingly engineered and well-acted.

A boy (or a man-cub, as the movie prefers to call him) is somehow lost and lived in the forest as long as he could remember. He learned how to survive, adapt, eat, make friends, and also, enemies. This movie will tell a life-changing journey of this boy named Mowgli.

I don't know how to classify this movie as animated or live-action, because everything seems so real and gorgeous. Every inch of the forest is mapped out with incredible detail. Every leaf, every fur, every spark of fire, everything managed to come to life in the hands of the animators and director Jon Favreau.

The movie also boasts a strong voice actors, starring from Ben Kingsley, Bill Murray and Idris Elba to Scarlett Johansson and Lupita Nyong'o. Neel Sethi also gave an amazing performance as Mowgli. Given he has to work with motion capture, green screens and fake pieces of jungle all the time, he manages to deliver a satisfying performance.

The storytelling and pacing of this movie is a bit slow, with the final duration of the movie clocking at 2 hours. Each character introduced plays an important part in the movie, and none of the subplots seem to be wasted. There are some shocking moments that will throw some audiences out of the loop for a while, and there are some majestic moments that will definitely tug your heartstrings.

It was a satisfying experience for children and adults, and a truthful retelling of the original story.