ANIMATED FEATURE

THIS YEAR, “DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE” BECAME THE HIGHEST- grossing Japanese film ever and Chinese sequel “Ne Zha 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time — by a lot — but neither makes the top five from our panel. ¶ There is a cultural phenomenon at No. 1, though: “If you haven’t performed one song from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ at a karaoke bar, you know someone who has,” says Glenn Whipp, picking up his microphone and soju: “Resistance is futile.” It’s the first-ever Netflix film to hit No. 1 in theaters and three of its songs made the Billboard Top 10, and its 325 million streams are the most in Netflix original history.

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ANIMATED FEATURE

THIS YEAR, “DEMON SLAYER: INFINITY CASTLE” BECAME THE HIGHEST-grossing Japanese film ever and Chinese sequel “Ne Zha 2” became the highest-grossing animated film of all time — by a lot — but neither makes the top five from our panel. There is a cultural phenomenon at No. 1, though: “If you haven't performed one song from ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ at a karaoke bar, you know someone who has,” says Glenn Whipp, picking up his microphone and soju: “Resistance is futile.” It’s the first-ever Netflix film to hit No. 1 in theaters and three of its songs made the Billboard Top 10, and its 325 million streams are the most in Netflix original history.

Front-runners:

1. "KPop Demon Hunters"

2. "Arco"

3. "Zootopia 2"

4. "Little Amélie or the Character of Rain"

5. "Elio"

T6. "Ne Zha 2"

T6. "Scarlet"

8. "The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants"