ReelBest animated movies
Pixar, Disney, DreamWorks and the studios pushing past them — twenty picks that prove animation isn't a genre for kids, it's a technique. (Looking for anime specifically? That's a separate list.)
Recent
The last two years, sorted by what's actually getting watched — not by nostalgia.
01A shipwrecked robot stranded on a wild island slowly adopts an orphaned gosling and learns to survive alongside the animals she was built to serve.
02A solitary cat survives a great flood by banding together with other animals on a small boat, told entirely without a word of dialogue.
03A tablet becomes the toys' newest, hardest-to-beat rival for a kid's attention.
04Bowser Jr. picks up where his dad left off, and the brothers head to the stars to stop him.
05Judy and Nick go undercover across the city to crack the case of a lifetime.
06The Minions' rise to Hollywood stardom, told with the franchise's usual chaos turned up to eleven.
07Moana sets sail again on a wider ocean voyage, reuniting with Maui for a new journey.
08An origin story tracing how an orphaned cub became the king Simba grew up idolizing.
09The reformed crew of animal outlaws gets pulled back into one more heist, whether they like it or not.
10A K-pop girl group moonlights as demon hunters, using their music as an actual weapon against supernatural threats.
Best of All Time
The reputation-makers — high scores, high vote counts, still worth the runtime.
01Miles Morales gets pulled into a multiverse of different Spider-People, in an animation style that reinvented what a superhero movie could look like.
02A boy chasing his family's forbidden love of music ends up in the Land of the Dead on the one night he can cross back.
03A lonely trash-compacting robot falls for a sleek scout droid, in a first act that barely uses dialogue and still says everything.
04A young lion prince flees his kingdom after his father's death, and has to reckon with his own guilt to reclaim it.
05A cowboy doll's jealousy over a new space ranger toy kicks off the film that started modern computer animation.
06A jazz musician's near-death experience sends him into the space between life and the great beyond.
07Miles chases Gwen across an even bigger multiverse, and runs headfirst into a whole society of Spider-People with their own rules.
08A spoiled postman exiled to the Arctic accidentally kicks off the Santa Claus legend.
09Puss discovers he's burned through eight of his nine lives, and goes hunting for a wish that can give them back.
10A stop-motion retelling set in Mussolini's Italy, considerably darker and stranger than the story you think you know.