Films

9.1Skry

Spirited Away

2001

A ten-year-old girl wanders into a bathhouse for spirits and cannot find the door back. Her parents have been transformed; her name is being taken from her; the rules of this world reveal themselves only as she breaks them. Miyazaki builds the film as a picaresque set inside a single enormous building, using Chihiro's labor — she must work the bathhouse to survive — as both plot engine and structural spine. Each floor, each corridor, introduces a new register: slapstick, dread, unexpected tenderness. The world compounds rather than explains itself, and the film's hold comes precisely from that density, a logic felt before it's understood.

9.0Skry

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2018

Miles Morales gets his spider-bite in a film that treats the origin story as a premise to move through rather than a destination to linger on. The interest is structural: Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman build the film around a collider accident that pulls half a dozen Spider-people from incompatible dimensions into Brooklyn, each rendered in a visually distinct idiom — anime, noir, slapstick cartoon — that the film holds in the frame simultaneously without resolving the collision into a single house style. Shameik Moore plays Miles as someone still working out who he is; Jake Johnson's older, frayed Peter Parker functions as a foil who's run out of room to grow. The animation does the genre argument: form as content, style as character.

8.0Skry

Toy Story 5

2026

The toys have always competed with something — a newer model, a yard sale, a child growing up — but a tablet reframes the threat structurally. Buzz, Woody, Jessie, and the gang now contend not with a rival toy but with a device that makes toys as a category feel optional. Andrew Stanton, returning to Pixar animation after the *Finding* films, builds the premise around that generational friction: a child absorbed by a screen, a roomful of characters whose entire purpose is suddenly in question. Whether the film plays that as adventure, comedy, or something more melancholy in its margins remains to be seen.

7.7Skry

Hoppers

2026

A girl slips her consciousness into a robotic animal body and steps into a world she thought she understood — Hoppers builds its adventure around that central gimmick and treats the animal kingdom as genuinely alien territory rather than a backdrop for cute behavior. Daniel Chong structures the film as a discovery narrative that keeps widening its own scope: each hop into a new body reframes what Mabel thinks she knows, until the animal world begins to look less like nature and more like a system with its own logic and secrets. The animation has work to do here, rendering both the robotic vessels and their organic counterparts in a register where the strangeness of the premise stays legible.

7.4Skry

Swapped

2026

7.3Skry

Minions & Monsters

2026

7.0Skry

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

2026