Top 10 Anime: Films
The highest-graded anime films we have reviewed, best first.
Spirited AwayA film with no villain, no prophecy, and no chosen one, and it still holds a child completely rapt.Read the review
Princess MononokeMiyazaki's least sentimental film, in which the forest, the ironworks, and the war are all right at once.
Grave of the FirefliesTakahata gives away the ending in the first line, then makes you watch it happen anyway.
My Neighbor TotoroTwo sisters move to the countryside and almost nothing happens, which turns out to be the achievement.
The Boy and the HeronMiyazaki's late self portrait, a grief story that opens into a world, and the finest thing Ghibli has made this century.
The Tale of the Princess KaguyaTakahata spent eight years proving that a drawing does not have to be finished to be alive.
The End of EvangelionAnno answers his own television ending with the angriest film in the medium, and it is magnificent.
AkiraDecades on, still the benchmark for what hand-drawn animation is physically capable of doing.
Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze ArcThe film fixes what the series got wrong: Fujimoto's comic timing is back, and a small summer romance builds to the best action MAPPA has animated.
A Silent VoiceA film about a bully seeking forgiveness that refuses to let him have it cheaply.
