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.”

This vertigo-inducing animated feature offers proof that 2D provides just as many stomach-turning, vicarious thrills (or fears) as 3-D animation.

Departing from a straightforward biopic, the filmmakers throw in a twist: Anne Frank’s life is told from the perspective of Kitty, Anne’s imaginary friend to whom she wrote diary entries from 1942–44.

An animated film that turns its imaginative eye toward the world of cryptids, hybrid creatures (unicorns, griffins) whose existence is endangered.

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