Inside Out
The days of Pixar consistently churning out great movies years after year are behind us. But with Pete Docter’s Inside Out they came up with one of their most clever hooks in quite a while: the way that are emotions work together to form who we are. It’s a wonderful and deeply empathetic picture that still has all the creative exuberance of the studio at its best (the dream-production sequence where Joy and Sadness try to wake up 11 year old Riley is effusively witty). The voice acting is down the line terrific (especially Phyllis Smith as Sadness and Lewis Black as Anger). Hard not to let that ending get to you. This earns all of its sneakily disarming tears.