The 8 Best Animated Movies on movie.guru, Ranked

Ranked purely by the movie.guru score, critics and audiences blended. No vibes, no mercy. Three of these made less worldwide than The Iron Giant's $23.3M flop.

Number one is 38 years old, has no villain, and still wins.

1. 8
   Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (2025)9.2

   Fans dragged this one past the critics, and won.

   Metacritic gave it a 67. Audiences beat 99% of movies anyway, and it pulled $793.6M worldwide on a reported $20M budget. The wallets settled this argument.
2. 7
   The Iron Giant (1999)9.3

   The best movie almost nobody saw in theaters.

   $23.3M worldwide against a reported budget near $50M. Decades later it sits at 9.3 here with a CinemaScore A. Brad Bird got the last laugh, just very slowly.
3. 6
   The Wild Robot (2024)9.4

   The rare studio hit that earned every tear it took.

   $334.5M worldwide, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, CinemaScore A. Pedro Pascal voices a fox, which in 2024 felt like a legal requirement for any movie.
4. 5
   Wildwood (2026)9.5

   Tiny sample size, but the sample is right.

   99% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8.7 on IMDb, from only 5,079 votes. It has $11.6M on the books against a reported $100M budget. It deserves a way bigger crowd.
5. 4
   Flow (2024)9.5

   A cat with zero lines outacts most of Hollywood.

   A 9.5 here and an 87 on Metacritic, with a cast list that is literally just the director, Gints Zilbalodis. It made $30.9M worldwide.
6. 3
   Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye (2025)9.5

   The audience score is doing all the heavy lifting.

   A 9.5 built on audiences beating 97% of movies, with zero critic scores on file and just 2,423 IMDb votes. The Guru's Take is a much cooler 7.4.
7. 2
   Look Back (2024)9.6

   The best reviews on this list belong to the smallest movie.

   100% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 90 on Metacritic, both tops here. It made $6,043,816 worldwide. Critics found it. You probably did not.
8. 1
   My Neighbor Totoro (1988)9.6

   No villain, no explosions, no contest. Totoro wins.

   A 1988 movie with $3.1M domestic ties for the top score at 9.6. Audiences beat 99% of movies, and 441,976 IMDb voters showed up for a giant fluffy nap.

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