Film-Forward

Animated

Earwig and the Witch

Studio Ghibli has been such a grand master of 2D animation that watching it make the jump into 3D almost seems blasphemous.

Flee | Sundance Film Festival 2021

Expertly paced and among the most suspenseful films in recent memory.

Soul

Pixar films have always been existential in some form, but the surreal Soul takes it to its logical extreme.

Wolfwalkers

The main reason to watch this is its stellar animation. Even if there were Disney films out as competition—be they 2-D or 3-D—this movie would still look refreshing by comparison.

Son of the White Mare

The animation is like nothing you’ve probably seen before. It’s like artwork made by a child with blocks, if that child took a boatload of acid.

The Wolf House

A harrowing depiction of coping with trauma, in the tone of a Grimm’s fairy tale.

I Lost My Body

The award-wining animated film features one of the most truculent and entrancing characters of the year: a disembodied hand wandering Paris to find its body.

White Snake

An intense and captivating love story, with many sleek sequences of action and fantasy.

Klaus

This year, it’s Netflix’s turn to get the holiday season started with Sergio Pablos’s animated Klaus.