Film-Forward

Animated

The Wild Robot

One of DreamWorks’ best films in recent memory and another reminder of animation’s emotional staying power.

Boys Go to Jupiter, Mars, The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer | Tribeca Festival 2024

A whimsical musical and an almost psychedelic trip to the suburbs of Florida; a science-fiction farce loaded with foul language, explicit violence, and sexual references; and an amalgam of noir and black comedy.

Robot Dreams

Director Pablo Berger has crafted a fantastical tale of great visual (and sonic) inventiveness that is as gorgeous to look at as it is emotionally bittersweet.

My Love Affair with Marriage

Signe Baumane’s original and smart semi-autobiographical animated musical is different and not afraid to be itself.

The Boy and the Heron | TIFF 2023

Without a doubt, the 82-year-old Hayao Miyazaki pulls out all stops visually in perhaps his most beautiful movie.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

An animated adaptation of six Haruki Murakami short stories, featuring ghostly figures, anthropomorphic animals, and natural disasters.

Suzume

Suzume, like many characters in children’s stories, is an orphan who one day discovers that there is much more to the world than she ever imagined.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

A classic story told with a fresh coat of paint, and a passion project that pays off in full.

Eternal Spring

First, and most simply, this documentary retells the 2002 hijacking of state-owned TV channels in Changchun, China, through animation.