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AV Clubs - The 20 best films of 2015
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:48 am
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:48 am
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Every year is a good year for movies, provided you’re willing to wander a little off the beaten path. But in 2015, it was hard to go more than a few steps without hitting something major, something essential. More even than usual, the year’s best films took different shapes, sizes, and routes to eyeballs. Multiplexes were unusually rich with adventurous big-budget movies, as Hollywood handed the keys to the castle to real artists. At the same time, fine smaller films from all over the globe made their way from festivals to theaters and on to streaming platforms, where any viewer with a working web connection could get a taste of something different. What the 20 films below have in common, beyond the strong impression they made on our ballot-filing critics, is a general habit of saying something significant about the here and now, even when transporting audiences to a subatomic there; a fantastically reproduced then; and a lawless, post-apocalyptic later.
20. James White
19. Mustang
18. The Martian
17. Approaching The Elephant
16. The Forbidden Room
15. Crimson Peak
14. 45 Years
13. Hard To Be A God
12. Bridge Of Spies
11. Inside Out
10. Anomalisa
9. Brooklyn
8. Carol
7. The Assassin
6. Sicario
5. The Look Of Silence
4. The Duke Of Burgundy
3. It Follows
2. Phoenix
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
Have we all died and gone to Valhalla? This is a movie—a grand, impossible blockbuster—that shouldn’t even exist. George Miller, an Aussie genre veteran in his 70s, somehow shook $150 million from Hollywood’s pockets, then spent it crashing cars in the desert to realize the demolition derby of his wildest dreams, the Mad Max movie he’s been working toward since the very start. Fury Road bucks just about every trend in big-budget franchise filmmaking: It’s a self-contained joy ride through its creator’s limitless imagination, an art movie stretched across the canvas of an IMAX screen. And beneath its layers upon layers of awe-inspiring imagery—a blitzkrieg of practical effects, whipped up into a two-hour car chase—beats the heart of a surprisingly subversive entertainment, one that dares to put its mythic hero (Tom Hardy, a fine substitute for Mad Mel) into the passenger seat, while a metal-armed Charlize Theron leads the charge against misogyny incarnate. That this super-charged passion project made it to screens fully intact, like some spectacle from another universe, is cause to keep grinning, with or without a mouth sprayed in a glorious shade of chrome.
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This post was edited on 12/17/15 at 10:56 am
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:51 am to RLDSC FAN
No Creed. No Jurassic World. No Star Wars. No care.
And Inside Out should be top 3.
And Inside Out should be top 3.
This post was edited on 12/17/15 at 10:53 am
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:52 am to RLDSC FAN
How is Ex Machina not included.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:53 am to OnCampusTiger
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How is Ex Machina not included.
That was my first thought as well
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:54 am to RLDSC FAN
No Creed? Damn, but I agree with No. 1 it's the best action movie I've ever seen and in my top 10 favorite films of all time.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:56 am to RLDSC FAN
Damn it follows was a good original horror but #3?? No way
Posted on 12/17/15 at 10:59 am to RLDSC FAN
Lack of Ex Machina makes no sense.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:03 am to RLDSC FAN
Inside Out is WAY too low. It might be #1
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:08 am to RLDSC FAN
The Assassin looks good. There's a few movies I haven't heard of. I liked Mad Max but putting it number 1 is a stretch.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:10 am to RLDSC FAN
20. James White - never heard of it
19. Mustang - never heard of it
18. The Martian - will see on DVD
17. Approaching The Elephant - never heard of it
16. The Forbidden Room - never heard of it
15. Crimson Peak - will never see it
14. 45 Years - never heard of it
13. Hard To Be A God - never heard of it
12. Bridge Of Spies - will see on DVD
11. Inside Out - loved, saw in theater
10. Anomalisa - never heard of it
9. Brooklyn - never heard of it
8. Carol - vaguely heard of it, will likely never see
7. The Assassin - never heard of it
6. Sicario - never heard of it
5. The Look Of Silence - never heard of it
4. The Duke Of Burgundy - never heard of it
3. It Follows - will never see it
2. Phoenix - never heard of it
1. Mad Max: Fury Road - hated the first 5 minutes, turned it off, will never watch the rest
So that is one I have seen, and 2 more I will ever see. Where do they get these lists? Some cafe in San Francisco with a bunch of Prius's parked out front?
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:19 am to RLDSC FAN
Just a handful of films off the top of my head that belong on that list in place of some others:
Ex Machina
Me and Earl and The Dying Girl
Amy
Beasts of No Nation
Creed
White God
Ex Machina
Me and Earl and The Dying Girl
Amy
Beasts of No Nation
Creed
White God
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:19 am to LeonPhelps
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and 2 more I will ever see.
What does the probability of you correctly analyzing a movie youve never seen have to do with, literally, fricking anything?
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:21 am to RLDSC FAN
Outside of Mad Max being #1, that is a garbage garbage list. They have The Martian behind Crimson Peak for crying out loud. What fricking morons.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:25 am to LeonPhelps
You seem like a fun person to be around
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:27 am to LeonPhelps
I tried to watch Hard to be a God and the movie is literally about shite. I watched about 30 minutes and all that really happened is people smeared shite all over each other. Supposedly the book it's based on is good but the movie is merits es from what I've seen.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:30 am to funnystuff
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You seem like a fun person to be around
I am. My friends enjoy fun movies in my company.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:33 am to LeonPhelps
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I am. My friends enjoy fun movies in my company.
It sounds like you enjoy catchy trailers or well marketed movies or movies with catchy titles.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:38 am to cfish140
"It Follows" was a well made low budget horror movie that did a good job of building a sense of dread. But, it was not as original as everyone claims it to be. It took a familiar story idea of the chain-letter style curse and simply applied it to sex. It is really not that original, rather just a different spin on an existing g formula.
I don't mean that to disparage the film because I enjoyed it and thought it was well made. It is very good low budget genre film, but should not be that high on the list. It has done a remarkable job with the hype machine.
I don't mean that to disparage the film because I enjoyed it and thought it was well made. It is very good low budget genre film, but should not be that high on the list. It has done a remarkable job with the hype machine.
Posted on 12/17/15 at 11:42 am to LeonPhelps
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Mad Max: Fury Road - hated the first 5 minutes, turned it off, will never watch the rest
Oh Leon.
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