Makoto Shinkai tenderly explores a boy's first love and how it impacts the rest of his life in this brilliantly animated masterpiece, 5 Centimeters Per Second.
The Trouble with Harry drips with careful innuendo, polite dark humor, yet no genuine mystery and still feels every bit of Alfred Hitchcok's personality.
Touch of Evil's exotic, groundbreaking camerawork is matched by eccentric, b-level noir storytelling that's wholly captivating and still distinctly modern.
A charming coming-of-age story about standing out in a large family, Encanto fits comfortably into the Disney formula with a distinctive Colombian touch.
Insipid, obvious, and frustratingly angst-filled, Matrix Resurrections whiffs when trying to make a point about the studio system and the current run of franchise filmmaking.