The 50 best animated movies of all time, according to critics

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 90%

Summary: "When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters — an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire — to rescue him."

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 73%

Summary: "An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets."

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 89%

Summary: "A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master."

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 85%

Summary: "When the newly-crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition."

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 85%

Summary: "The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their daughter, Arrietty, is discovered."

Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 88%

Summary: "The story of an unlikely friendship between a bear, Ernest, and a young mouse named Celestine."

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 92%

Summary: "When a street urchin vies for the love of a beautiful princess, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself off as a prince in order to marry her."

Critic score: 93%

Audience score: 85%

Summary: "An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation."

Critic score: 91%

Audience score: 70%

Summary: "A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary."

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 80%

Summary: "A man is shipwrecked on a deserted island and encounters a red turtle, which changes his life."

Critic score: 92%

Audience score: 93%

Summary: "A Lion cub crown prince is tricked by a treacherous uncle into thinking he caused his father's death and flees into exile in despair, only to learn in adulthood his identity and his responsibilities."

Critic score: 95%

Audience score: 79%

Summary: "Wallace and his loyal dog, Gromit, set out to discover the mystery behind the garden sabotage that plagues their village and threatens the annual giant vegetable growing contest."

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 92%

Summary: "A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution."

Critic score: 97%

Audience score: 94%

Summary: "Two strangers find themselves linked in a bizarre way. When a connection forms, will distance be the only thing to keep them apart?"

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 84%

Summary: "The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies."

Critic score: 96%

Audience score: 52%

Summary: "A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 90%

Summary: "An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict."

Critic score: 99%

User score: 92%

Summary: "Ben, a young Irish boy, and his little sister Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world."

Critic score: 97%

User score: 84%

Summary: "A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder."

Critic score: 97%

User score: 96%

Summary: "During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 90%

Summary: "A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy."

Critic score: 90%

User score: 80%

Summary: "A cooler-than-ever Bruce Wayne must deal with the usual suspects as they plan to rule Gotham City, while discovering that he has accidentally adopted a teenage orphan who wishes to become his sidekick."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 90%

Summary: "In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, 2 monsters realize things may not be what they think."

Critic score: 100%

User score: 90%

Summary: "Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people."

Critic score: 95%

User score: 91%

Summary: "Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home cause confusion."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 83%

Summary: "A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 75%

Summary: "When a litter of Dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions of Cruella de Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical fashion statement."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 87%

Summary: "After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love."

Critic score: 94%

User score: 92%

Summary: "A young woman whose father has been imprisoned by a terrifying beast offers herself in his place, unaware that her captor is actually a prince, physically altered by a magic spell."

Critic score: 97%

User score: 64%

Summary: "When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners."

Critic score: 97%

User score: 75%

Summary: "A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 91%

Summary: "A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed."

Critic score: 100%

User score: 86%

Summary: "A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 87%

Summary: "A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant."

Critic score: 97%

User score: 86%

Summary: "A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past."

Critic score: 95%

User score: 89%

Summary: "In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by the Demigod Maui reaches Moana's island, she answers the Ocean's call to seek out the Demigod to set things right."

Critic score: 99%

User score: 80%

Summary: "When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 87%

Summary: "An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as 'special,' is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis."

Critic score: 96%

User score: 89%

Summary: "In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind."

Critic score: 100%

User score: 92%

Summary: "A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room."

Critic score: 94%

User score: 84%

Summary: "The friendly but forgetful blue tang fish, Dory, begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way."

Critic score: 100%

User score: 72%

Summary: "A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy."

Critic score: 99%

User score: 86%

Summary: "After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 90%

Summary: "Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway."

Critic score: 100%

User score: 86%

Summary: "When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting."

Critic score: 99%

User score: 89%

Summary: "The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 92%

Summary: "In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 78%

Summary: "Exiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household."

Critic score: 98%

User score: 89%

Summary: "After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school."