The Tale of the Princess Kaguya — IQ Score 166/200

Isao Takahata's 2013 final film before his death — an adaptation of the 10th-century Japanese folk tale 'The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.' The hand-drawn watercolor-and-charcoal animation style is among the medium's most-formally-disciplined achievements; the structural commitment to letting the folk-tale's actual moral architecture (a celestial princess's wish to experience earthly life is granted and then rescinded) be the film's actual argument is rare animated-feature work.