1. WALL-E

Years from now — yea, unto eternity — all who love movies will rank WALL-E among the medium's most profound, subtle, sophisticated, and gorgeously inventive specimens, ever. Never before have robots, Twinkies, a cockroach, and a lone, tenacious plant seedling intertwined so elegantly to tell a story of endurance, optimism, love at first sight, courtship, ecological destruction, postapocalyptic redemption, and...well, eternity. In fact, the scope of this epic often defies the limitations of words — and WALL-E pays homage with great wordless stretches during which the goggle-eyed robot walks the walk rather than talks the talk.

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