Kubo worked for me - an animated tale of adventure set in an imagined Japan, complete with magic-ed origami, a guardian monkey and human sized beetle samurai (it gains something from the knowledge that Monkey is voiced by Charlize Theron and Beetle - restrainedly - by Matthew McConaughey, but doesn't depend on it) and plenty of monstrous adversaries, all in stop motion, and with plenty of subtlety, melancholy and, especially at the end, kindness. Bonus points for Regina Spektor's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", a song whose tune turns out to be tailor made for her.
