This has been a robust and diverse decade for animation, although it might not seem like it. While the decade has largely been dominated by mainstream powerhouses like DreamWorks, Pixar and Disney (whose current “Frozen 2” and 2013’s “Frozen” dominated the conversation), some of which are represented here because some of it legitimately good, there have still been a number of powerful independent features and movies that don’t just utilize the slickest, most cutting-edge computer-generated imagery.

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It’s sort of remarkable, the ways that animation on the big screen has changed in the past two decades or so. In the early ’90s, the game was pretty much entirely owned by Disney’s hand-drawn animated fairy tales, which were hugely successful but almost entirely seen as kids’ stuff, with the occasional Don Bluth or Ralph Bakshi effort winning some eyes but not really competing; and the beginning of an interesting scene in Japan that largely failed to crossover to mainstream audiences stateside.

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