Top 10 Movies: Fantasy
The highest-graded fantasy movies we have reviewed, best first.
The OdysseyNolan takes on the oldest story ever told and makes it feel like the newest.Read the review
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingJackson lands the dismount, staging Pelennor Fields as the last great practical-effects battle.
The Wizard of OzHollywood's most watched film earns every viewing: a clean, frightening, funny fable, and a sepia door that opens onto Technicolor.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2The payoff film, and the only one that gets to spend everything the series spent ten years saving.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanCuaron throws out the tour guide and shoots the series like an actual film.
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.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black PearlA theme park ride turned into a genuinely witty swashbuckler, half an hour too long and rescued again and again by the strangest star turn Disney ever allowed.
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 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the RingThe trilogy's best-built film: world first, quest second, every rule established before it is broken.
Groundhog DayA comedy with the structure of a philosophy problem, and it never once stops to explain the rules.
