When it comes to movies I tend to have the taste of 40-year-old woman from the suburbs. I’m happy to straddle the fence between big budget ensemble comedies and art house indies you have to go to a special movie theatre to see. This year, even though I feel like all I did was watch...
Top 10 of 2015: John McShane
Magic Mike XXL There are at least a dozen movies I didn’t see this year that probably could have been swapped into this list if I’d seen them, but I’m certain that nothing had a shot at supplanting this at the top. Multiple orders better than the original, they somehow improved on it by dropping...
Top 10 of 2015: Sarah Winshall
4 THEMES in 11 FILMS & 1 LIST of 10 FILMS THE PAST Some of the best movie-going of 2015 resulted not from recent films at all but from long overdue, highly anticipated, delayed releases of a couple of movies made in the 1970s. A Poem is a Naked Person, filmed from 1972-1974 was not released...
Top 10 of 2015: Josh Fu
Josh Fu’s favorite movies from 2015, ranked 1 to 10: 1. It Follows 2. The Hateful Eight 3. Carol 4. Anomalisa 5. Bridge of Spies 6. Mad Max: Fury Road 7. Sicario 8. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 9. Mustang 10. Ricki and the Flash
ICYMI Tuesday: Top 10 Season
It’s Top 10 season! We’ll be posting our favorites from 2015 later this week, so stay tuned! In the meantime, here are some lists we like, unranked: The ultimate list of Overlooked films – Indiewire’s annual compendium of undistributed films, hopefully coming to a theater near you in 2016… Without fail, every year MUBI Notebook’s...