All Pixar Movies, Ranked by Critics’ Scores
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI film production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. Pixar has released 26 feature films, which were all released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner, with their first being Toy Story (which was also the first feature-length CGI film ever released) in 1995, and their latest being Lightyear in 2022. Their upcoming slate of films includes Elemental (2023) and two untitled films in 2024.
Now, we’re ranking all Pixar movies by critics’ scores from best to worst.
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- Toy Story 2 (1999)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Inside Out (2015)
- Toy Story 3 (2010)
- Up (2009)
- Toy Story 4 (2019)
- Coco (2017)
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Soul (2020)
- WALL•E (2008)
- Finding Dory (2016)
- Turning Red (2022)
- Incredibles 2 (2018)
- A Bug’s Life (1998)
- Luca (2021)
- Onward (2020)
- Monsters University (2013)
- Brave (2012)
- The Good Dinosaur (2015)
- Lightyear (2022)
- Cars (2006)
- Cars 3 (2017)
- Cars 2 (2011)
- Toy Story 2 (1999)
- Toy Story (1995)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Inside Out (2015)
- Toy Story 3 (2010)
- Up (2009)
- Toy Story 4 (2019)
- Coco (2017)
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Soul (2020)
- WALL•E (2008)
- Finding Dory (2016)
- Turning Red (2022)
- Incredibles 2 (2018)
- A Bug’s Life (1998)
- Luca (2021)
- Onward (2020)
- Monsters University (2013)
- Brave (2012)
- The Good Dinosaur (2015)
- Lightyear (2022)
- Cars (2006)
- Cars 3 (2017)
- Cars 2 (2011)

Toy Story 2 (1999)
Tomatometer: 100% – Metascore: 88
Starring: Animation, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer
Directed By: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon, Lee Unkrich


Finding Nemo (2003)
Tomatometer: 99% – Metascore: 90
Starring: Animation, Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
Directed By: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich




Toy Story 4 (2019)
Tomatometer: 97% – Metascore: 84
Starring: Animation, Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale
Directed By: Josh Cooley

Coco (2017)
Tomatometer: 97% – Metascore: 81
Starring: Animation, Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach
Directed By: Lee Unkrich, Adrián Molina

The Incredibles (2004)
Tomatometer: 97% – Metascore: 90
Starring: Animation, Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee
Directed By: Brad Bird






Turning Red (2022)
Tomatometer: 94% – Metascore: 83
Starring: Animation, Rosalie Chiang, Sandra Oh, Ava Morse, Hyein Park
Directed By: Domee Shi




Onward (2020)
Tomatometer: 88% – Metascore: 61
Starring: Animation, Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer
Directed By: Dan Scanlon




Lightyear (2022)
Tomatometer: 75% – Metascore: 60
Starring: Animation, Chris Evans, Taika Waititi, Keke Palmer, James Brolin
Directed By: Angus MacLane



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