There was a time when Pixar could seemingly do no wrong. Between 1995's Toy Story and 2010’s Toy Story 3, the Emeryville-based animation studio released classic after classic after classic, across a remarkably broad range of genres. Even the comparatively ordinary Cars had the gas to hit the mark with younger viewers.
Keeping the quality bar so high was always going to be a challenge, however, and the subsequent 13 years have been more of a mixed bag. Sure, there's still been some bona fide classics – Inside Out, Soul and Coco hold their own among the best movies Pixar have ever made – but the period has been dominated by sequels, a prequel, and new stories that just can't compete with what went before. That's why the upper end of this guide to the best Pixar movies ranked is dominated by releases from the studio's ’90s and ’00s glory days.
