Top 10 Movies: Animation
The highest-graded animation movies we have reviewed, best first.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-VerseThe most inventive animation in American film, attached to about two thirds of a story.Read the review
RatatouilleA kitchen farce about a rat that turns out to be Pixar's sharpest argument about talent, criticism and where great art can come from.
The IncrediblesA superhero film about middle age, marriage and thwarted talent, made with more style than most live action blockbusters manage.
Finding NemoPixar at the moment its technology catches up with its writing, and still the studio's most purely enjoyable film.
Toy StoryThe first fully computer animated feature is also a tight, mean, genuinely funny buddy comedy about being replaced.
Guillermo del Toro's PinocchioStop-motion of astonishing care turns Collodi's puppet into a fable about grief, fascism and mortality, and only the songs fall short.
Mary and MaxAdam Elliot's claymation pen-pal story is funnier and sadder than its look promises, even when the narration does too much of the work.
UpFour wordless minutes at the start rank with anything in animation, and the rest is a very good adventure.
Monsters, Inc.Goodman and Crystal make Pixar's best double act, inside a scare factory that works as fairy tale, workplace satire and a very funny chase.
The Iron GiantBrad Bird's debut asks what happens when a weapon would rather be Superman, and answers with more feeling than almost any American animated film.
