Anime

9 (2009) Post-apocalyptic 3DCG adventure makes the standard error - all the energy was put into making every single thing intensely detailed and totally, totally "cool" looking, and none was left over for making the plot anything other than a string of cliches, or making the dialog anything other than meaningless noises meant only for effect. A few days later I had completely forgotten that I had seen it. 2/10

Umi ga Kikoeru [The Ocean Waves] (1993) I have read that this was a project meant to give the younger artists and animators at Studio Ghibli an opportunity to do their own feature film. It's essentially a high school melodrama, but it develops some real thoughtfulness and sensitivity by the end of the story. The art and animation are of the highest quality and it is inoffensive overall. 5/10

De Profundis [From the Sea] (2007) Spanish-made art film - extremely beautiful, long, slow and soporific. So much so that I have been unable to finish watching it. Most of the animation is computerized morphs back and forth between two or three drawings, with some cutout motion thrown in. It becomes, stylistically, very repetitive and ultimately unwatchable. 0/10

Doggy Poo (2003) Korean stop-motion animation, half an hour long, about a small dog turd lying in the road and what he learns about the world from a blob of mud, a drifting leaf, a chicken and a dandelion. Simultaneously touching and hilarious, a strange and unique work of pure genius. Everyone should see this. 10/10