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- Director: Spike Jonze
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 91
- Metascore: 90
- IMDb user rating: 7.7
- Runtime: 113 minutes

Director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman established their own brand of surrealist comedy with this feature debut. Set against a dreary urban backdrop, it sends depressed puppeteer Craig Schwartz, played by John Cusack, into the body of actor John Malkovich. When first presented with the concept, Malkovich suggested Tom Cruise instead.

- Director: Hayao Miyazaki
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 92
- Metascore: 86
- IMDb user rating: 8.2
- Runtime: 86 minutes

Two young girls move into a new house and get a taste of magical realism, Miyazaki style. Their fantastical adventures in the nearby forest provide respite from the reality of their ailing mother. On a 2012 Sight & Sound critics’ poll of the greatest films of all time, this was the highest-ranking animated title.

- Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 92
- Metascore: 91
- IMDb user rating: 7.7
- Runtime: 119 minutes

Director Hirokazu Koreeda puts a humanist twist on the afterlife in this quirky and sentimental drama. Upon dying, souls are sent to a way station and asked to preserve just one memory for eternity. Koreeda weaves real-life interviews and other documentary components into the otherwise fictional narrative.

- Director: Irvin Kershner
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 92
- Metascore: 82
- IMDb user rating: 8.7
- Runtime: 124 minutes

A perennial fan favorite, this “Star Wars” chapter continues the ultimate space battle between the Rebel Alliance and Imperialist Empire. Bolstered by a tight script, the story unfolds through a series of epic action sequences. It all builds up to one of the most famous reveals in movie history.

- Director: Isao Takahata
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 92
- Metascore: 89
- IMDb user rating: 8
- Runtime: 137 minutes

Helmed by Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata, this animated fantasy adapts a 10th-century folktale. Raised in a bamboo stalk, Princess Kaguya must contend with the real world upon leaving the proverbial womb. The exquisite animation style calls upon the minimalism of Japanese watercolor paintings.

- Directors: Jean Cocteau, René Clément
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 93
- Metascore: 92
- IMDb user rating: 7.9
- Runtime: 93 minutes

Long before the blockbuster adaptations, there was this French classic from multihyphenate Jean Cocteau and René Clément. Brimming with enchantment, it chronicles the romance between a young woman and her beastly captor. Walt Disney was so impressed that he stopped pursuing a similar project at the time.

- Directors: William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 93
- Metascore: 95
- IMDb user rating: 7.6
- Runtime: 83 minutes

A landmark achievement, Disney’s first full-length feature was also the first full-length animated film produced in North America. in the making, it became the most successful movie of its time. Fearing the wrath of a jealous queen, Snow White takes to the woods and meets seven lovable dwarfs.

- Director: Ang Lee
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 94
- Metascore: 94
- IMDb user rating: 7.8
- Runtime: 120 minutes

Returning to his Chinese Mandarin roots, director Ang Lee crafted one of the highest-grossing foreign language films of all time. It follows two 19th-century warriors as they hunt for a missing sword, crossing paths with a young martial arts prodigy. Expertly-choreographed fight scenes blend with sweeping drama for Oscar-winning results.

- Director: Don Hertzfeldt
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 95
- Metascore: 90
- IMDb user rating: 8.3
- Runtime: 62 minutes

Unifying three short films into a seamless whole, Don Hertzfeldt’s animated masterpiece introduces a stick figure named Bill. While suffering from a psychological breakdown, Bill takes a journey of philosophical proportions. A blend of surrealist visuals and techniques drives home the experimental narrative.

- Directors: Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Ben Sharpsteen
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 95
- Metascore: 99
- IMDb user rating: 7.4
- Runtime: 88 minutes

Upon springing to life, a wooden puppet must demonstrate morals and courage if he's going to become a real boy. By presenting a world of constant temptation and deceit, this Walt Disney production strikes an ever-prescient chord. The hand-drawn animation is nothing short of stunning, and reminiscent of an era that can never be repeated.

- Director: Peter Jackson
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 95
- Metascore: 87
- IMDb user rating: 8.7
- Runtime: 179 minutes

Two hobbits journey on to Mordor in their quest to destroy an all-powerful ring. Hoping to trick them is a shifty-eyed creature named Gollum, voiced by Andy Serkis, who’s rendered in groundbreaking CGI. The story climaxes with one of the .

- Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand, Jim Handley, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Ben Sharpsteen
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 95
- Metascore: 96
- IMDb user rating: 7.8
- Runtime: 125 minutes

A , this iconic production let classical music be its guide. The experimental film breaks down into segments while demonstrating an array of different styles and themes. It was a critical and commercial disappointment upon its release, only to be rediscovered and reappraised by future generations.

- Director: Frank Capra
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 89
- IMDb user rating: 8.6
- Runtime: 130 minutes

Hard as it may be to fathom, this enduring holiday classic originally tanked at the box office and even helped bankrupt its studio. Subsequent TV airings throughout the 1970s and beyond would turn it into a Christmas staple. In the film, a world-weary businessman, played by James Stewart, is shown what life would look like if he’d never existed.

- Director: Lee Unkrich
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 92
- IMDb user rating: 8.3
- Runtime: 103 minutes

It’s time for Andy to grow up and that means leaving his toys behind in the third “Toy Story” movie. Woody and the gang end up at a hostile daycare center, where an evil bear runs the show at night. The film won two Academy Awards, including best animated feature.

- Directors: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 93
- IMDb user rating: 8.2
- Runtime: 91 minutes

An enduring benchmark of comedy and pop culture alike, this Monty Python outing retells the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Deliriously subversive, it takes constant detours in pursuit of the next absurdist bit. In addition to Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, the film credits 40 specially trained Ecuadorian mountain llamas, six Venezuelan red llamas, 142 Mexican whooping llamas, 14 North Chilean guanacos that are closely related to the llama, Reg Llama of Brixton, and 76,000 battery llamas from "Llama-Fresh" Farms Ltd. near Paraguay as directors.

- Directors: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 94
- IMDb user rating: 8.1
- Runtime: 95 minutes

Boldly going where only a TV show called “Herman’s Head” dared to go before, this Pixar film takes viewers into the mind of young Riley. As she deals with various upheavals, Riley’s personified emotions undergo an adventure of their own. Comedians and actors such as Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Diane Lane, and Kyle MacLachlan all lend their voices.

- Directors: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 95
- IMDb user rating: 8
- Runtime: 84 minutes

Captive to a beast, the beautiful Belle must see past his unruly demeanor to find the cursed prince hiding within him. This tale as old as time relied primarily on hand-drawn animation, using for the ballroom sequence. It was the first full-length animated film to earn an Oscar nomination for best picture in the history of cinema.

- Director: George Lucas
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 90
- IMDb user rating: 8.6
- Runtime: 121 minutes

Cinema’s foremost space opera kicked off with this hotly anticipated chapter, which paired with groundbreaking special effects. Tasked with saving Princess Leia, played by Carrie Fisher, the Rebel Alliance and Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill, take on the evil Empire. This is world building on such an epic scale that Disney continues to explore new characters and storylines more than 40 years later.

- Directors: Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 96
- Metascore: 96
- IMDb user rating: 8
- Runtime: 111 minutes

An epicurean rat named Remy, voiced by Patton Oswalt, pursues his unlikely goal of becoming a world-class chef. Industry legend Brad Bird inherited the project and reworked it into one of the best-reviewed Pixar films ever made. At its core is the message that one’s dreams are never completely beyond reach.

- Director: John Lasseter
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 97
- Metascore: 95
- IMDb user rating: 8.3
- Runtime: 81 minutes

A veritable milestone, Pixar's inaugural feature ushered in a . It introduces a pocket-sized cowboy named Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, who gets jealous when his owner brings home a new toy, voiced by Tim Allen. Three blockbuster sequels would follow.

- Director: Peter Jackson
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 98
- Metascore: 92
- IMDb user rating: 8.8
- Runtime: 178 minutes

It took to give J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy the live-action adaptation it deserved. In this first installment, hobbits Frodo, played by Elijah Wood, and Sam, played by Sean Astin, dodge evil creatures on their way to destroy a mystical ring. Various New Zealand locations provided the perfect backdrops for Middle Earth.

- Director: Guillermo del Toro
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 98
- Metascore: 98
- IMDb user rating: 8.2
- Runtime: 118 minutes

Winner of three Academy Awards, this historical drama takes place in Spain during the early Francoist era. Grappling with a range of conflicts, a bookish young girl, played by Ivana Baquero, flees into a fully realized fantasy world. Drawing upon Guillermo del Toro’s greatest strengths, it pairs iconic special effects with rich characterizations to generate palpable gravitas.

- Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 98
- Metascore: 100
- IMDb user rating: 8
- Runtime: 102 minutes

Few fantasy films have stayed the course like “The Wizard of Oz,” which continues to draw in new audiences after eight decades. Upon waking up in a magical land, young Dorothy, played by Judy Garland, sets out to find her way home. It won two Academy Awards for the music, but lost best picture to a little movie called “Gone with the Wind.”

- Director: Hayao Miyazaki
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 99
- Metascore: 96
- IMDb user rating: 8.6
- Runtime: 125 minutes

Hayao Miyazaki’s most quintessential effort remains the highest-grossing movie in Japan to this day. A truly singular vision, it follows a young girl into a dangerous parallel world. Part of the film’s magic is its ability to pour out of the screen, infusing the viewer’s reality with a renewed sense of enchantment.

- Director: Peter Jackson
- �鶹ԭ�� score: 100
- Metascore: 94
- IMDb user rating: 8.9
- Runtime: 201 minutes

Peter Jackson's original trilogy concluded in fittingly epic fashion, presenting the final showdown between good and evil. It made over $1.1 billion at the global box office and won 11 Academy Awards, . If nearly three-and-a-half hours of adventure doesn't suffice, there's an extended version with more than 50 minutes of additional footage.