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50 Best New Animated Movies

The latest: Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, the first feature with the legendary stop-motion duo since 2005’s Curse of the Were-Rabbit, debuts on Netflix in America on January 3, 2025. The epic curio Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim. Moana 2, once intended as a television project but re-developed as Disney’s big Thanksgiving animated theatrical release. Flow, Latvian’s entry for the Best International Feature Oscar this year. Spellbound, Shrek director Vicky Jenson’s first animated feature in 20 years, on Netflix.

If you’re someone who’s drawn to the possibilities of movies, where sitting down means tripping to worlds and galaxies beyond our own, or through memories of the perilous, personal, and beautiful journeys taken right here on our big blue marble, then check out our guide to the 50 best new animated movies, recently released in theaters and at home!

The list starts with Certified Fresh movies, where it’s apparently rabbit duck robot season with Transformers origin story Transformers One, DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot, and heartbreaking Robot Dreams. Pixar came back in a big way with Inside Out 2. And Netflix has shown they’re taking their animation game to the next level with anime The Imaginary, Charlie Kaufman-scripted Orion and the Dark, and Ultraman: Rising.

After those, you’ll find Fresh movies, like DreamWorks’ other 2024 family offering, Kung Fu Panda 4. Mars Express had critics and audiences all aboard. And the consistently steady DC animation crew began their next Tomorrowverse arc with Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths, along with the start of the standalone Watchmen series with Chapter 1.

Enjoy our guide to the best of new animated movies, added as they come out!