'Persepolis'

Probably one of the best films I've seen all year. Probably one of the best films I've seen the last 10 years.

There is very little wrong with it. It's funny, charming, it builds characters and connects these small twists and plot lines into a very complete and interesting story.

Furthermore, it's about something. Unlike most animated films, it doesn't beat around the bush. It's a very different animation in that the filmmaking helps with simplifying a very tragic and unsimple country during a very unsimple time.

The filmmaker took a very tense subject and essentially dumbed it down and made it incredibly accessible for everyone, and yet it comes off entirely more poignant by not casting a bunch of Hollywood actors or Iranian nobodies to fill the parts.