the most underrated Disney film of the decade
Lord and Miller's origin point
Pixar's most emotionally direct
the animation phenomenon of its decade
the songs became inescapable for a reason
Pixar's most purely pleasurable
the most-watched animated film ever made, by most measures
Best Animated Feature, and the tap sequences
DreamWorks' one masterpiece
darker, bigger, and it earns it
fourteen years later, and it holds
Pixar's best idea
briefly the biggest animated film ever made
DreamWorks' best-directed film
Pixar's smallest and sunniest
overlooked in theaters, re-canonized by the internet
the best songs Disney has commissioned this century
Pixar's most emotionally efficient
a sequel nobody wanted that redefined DreamWorks' look
Pixar's most adult
the first Best Animated Feature Oscar
funnier and better constructed than the original
the jukebox animated musical, done with real charm
Pixar's most philosophical
animation with no visual rules
changed what animation could look like
the film that saved Disney animation
Pixar's best-structured film
should have been an ad; wasn't
the funniest animated film in years
a CG adaptation that respects the drawings
the best-looking mainstream animation in years
first fully computer-animated feature
the rare sequel that deepens the first
the incinerator
the unnecessary sequel that justifies itself
a billion dollars, and the series still isn't done
the first ten minutes
the first 40 minutes are silent-cinema-grade
Disney's smartest premise in years
a kids' film about systemic bias that actually works
restored 65mm footage, no narration
70mm, 24 countries, no narration
a memoir assembled from leftover footage
Golden Bear winner, narrated in part by a looted statue
no dialogue, Glass's score, pure montage
three hours of film criticism as film
astronomy and mass graves, in one film
the one genuinely essential use of 3D
Varda with a camcorder
the documentary that reframed a national argument
a slideshow that won an Oscar and moved a debate
it materially damaged a corporation
the doc that made docs commercial
a hijacking, and everything behind it
a family that filmed its own collapse
a documentary filmed as it happened
investigative journalism as it happens
a war documentary addressed to a daughter
a filmmaker standing between strikers and gunmen
