The 10 Best Animated Movies of 2022

"Sorry, has everyone just been painstakingly taking photographs of elaborate and beautiful feats of imagination, one frame at a time, all throughout the pandemic? Because otherwise, I'm just not sure how to explain the glut of incredible and labor-intensive stop-motion animation that we've been blessed with in 2022. We're lucky to get a single display of that dying technique in feature-length form during any given year. In 2022, we got a handful, including the title character waddling around Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The best animated movies of the year certainly weren't stop-motion only, but it's in that style's prevalence that we can find a guiding light in how to appreciate an art form under threat: When we respect the handmade, the hard-to-do, the tangible, we are drawn closer to the artists behind these works."