Above: "Kiki's Delivery Service" is part of Studio Ghibli Fest 2023. (Photo/Fathom Events)

Some movie genres never get tiring to watch. Especially for children.

And that’s what GKIDS is for, to provide entertaining movies for children. It does so through the annual Studio Ghibli Fests, which feature the works of the noted Japanese animated movie studio.

The movie that Studio Ghibli Fest 2023 is featuring this week is Hayao Miyazaki’s 1989 film “Kiki’s Delivery Service.” The plot involves a 13-year-old girl, a witch in training, who is spending her required year alone (except for her cat). She develops a delivery service – by broomstick, of course – and deals with a loss of confidence, and her powers, before regaining both.

The film will screen Sunday, Monday and Wednesday at four area theaters: AMC River Park Square, and the Regal Cinemas theaters at NorthTown Mall, Spokane Valley and Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone Stadium.

Sunday’s dubbed version screens at 4 and 7 p.m., Monday and Wednesday’s subtitled version screens at 7 only.

Charles Solomon of IndieWire wrote, “Even by Hayao Miyazaki's elevated standard, ‘Kiki's Delivery Service’ is a singularly charming film.”

And Steve Rose of The Guardian wrote, “The film becomes a benign guided tour of femininity ... gently broaching universal coming-of-age issues such as independence, insecurity, and even – more boldly than any Western children's movie would contemplate – sexuality.”

Clearly, some critics have their own notion of what constitutes a child.