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

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.

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

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

This animated film transports viewers to a time when music was of paramount importance to storytelling.

A grand sweeping epic fantasy with beautiful animation and many moving parts and levels of intrigue.

With one large gaping eye and two feet wearing the titular pink shoes, Marcel is a stop-motion animation/live-action hybrid that could have been dreamed up by a feverish René Magritte.

The strengths of this animated biopic are its visuals and Keira Knightley’s performance.

In its embrace of both fantasy and realism, this anime is very beautiful, with a story line that explicitly winks toward “Beauty and the Beast.”