Flee

A ranked selection of 2021's strongest feature films, comparing direction, writing, performance, sound and visual imagination across languages, genres, documentary and animation. First public...

The suspense here comes from a discovery, a closing window or a difficult decision, with real people bearing the consequences. Start with Collective for reporting, Last Breath for a concentrated...

A familiar animated film can change when work, grief, family or an unfinished ambition enters your own life. These are ways into that change, not claims about what every viewer must feel or what a...

A ranked introduction to what feature animation can do: hand-drawn worlds, tactile stop-motion, expressive computer imagery and adult documentary all belong here. I favour a visual approach that...