With the release of Entertainment Weekly's 20 best animated movies- I've decided to chime in on what I think is an interesting list. First off any list with Spirited Away & Wall-E is on the right track. Then I see titles like Coraline, Ghost In The Shell & Waltz With Bashir- not impressed. Where's Richard Linklater's groundbreaking Waking Life or the underrated Pixar, Ratatouille? Then again this list-like any other- will spark debate over its merits and selection. The best animated movies like the ones I'm about to list below have a maturity that can please both adults and kiddies alike. I'm reminded of that scene in Shrek where Donkey and the Ogre make fun of the King's hmm how shall I say this, size. A risky joke that only an adult audience could get.
The past decade has been astoundingly rich in animation and has given me the urge to compile my first -of what would be plenty- 'List Of The Decade'. If I had to choose ten distinctive titles that have advanced the animation form, I'd choose -in no particular order- Richard Linklater's groundbreaking Waking Life, Nick Park & Peter Lord's Chicken Run, Andrew Stanton's Wall-E & Finding Nemo, Brad Bird's Pixar treats The Incredibles & Ratatouille, Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jensen's Shrek + two foreign films- Sylvain Chomet's sublime Les Triplettes De Belleville & The best Animated movie I've ever seen -drumroll please- Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
Noah Baumbach's “Jay Kelly” is joining the Criterion Collection on February 16, 2027. It's one of the headliners of the newly announced February slate, and it's coming out barely a year after Netflix released it.