Mirai (2018)

While it's true that Dir. Hosoda's works are appealing less and less to me with each subsequent release, Mirai stands out as a drastic drop in that direction. That's a wholly subjective feeling, consolidated by my hatred of the lead character, a yapping four-year-old that I found to be completely insufferable. The basic premise, about a child who meets various members of his family from differing time periods, thus influencing his whiny little turd attitude in his own (present) time, is a genuinely fun idea, but the concepts and leaps of understanding that the child makes are much too advanced to be believable, meaning that even objectively the work fails to respect its own agenda.
In the interest of balance, the film has received a lot of praise elsewhere.

2½ bullet trains out of 5