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| Dirty Grandpa |
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| Aferim! |
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| Yosemite |
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| Prescription Thugs |
Another mixed bag:
Monday, January 25, 2016
Dirty Grandpa, Aferim!, Yosemite, Prescription Thugs
Another mixed bag:
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Ride Along 2, The Benefactor, Theeb, The Treasure
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| Ride Along 2 |
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| The Benefactor |
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| Theeb |
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| The Treasure |
Yup, it’s January.
Friday, January 8, 2016
Noteworthy Performances of 2015
By chance, I came up with nine names in each of the lead categories and eight names in each of the supporting categories. I've also identified the best comic and dramatic ensemble casts of the year.
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
The Top Ten Films of 2015: #8
#8
Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” treads much of the same terrain the master covered in “Django Unchained,” and a late plot twist comes straight out of the opening set piece from “Inglourious Basterds.” But damn if he doesn’t keep you entertained for three hours as nobody else can, with the most daring and subversive dialogue in the current cinema and a nonpareil talent for filling the wide screen with sight and sound.
The Top Ten Films of 2015: Honorable Mentions
Before revealing each of my top ten films of 2015, here are two titles that just missed a spot on my list:
Monday, January 4, 2016
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Friday, January 1, 2016
Complete List of Star Ratings to 2015 Films
Below, a
complete guide to my star ratings for the 270 new releases I saw theatrically
in 2015.
(D) beside a
title denotes a documentary.
About Elly -
2 stars
The Age of
Adaline - 1 star
Alex of
Venice - 2 ½ stars
All Things
Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (D) - 3 stars
Aloha - 1 ½
stars
American
Ultra - 1 ½ stars
Amy (D) - 3
stars
Anomalisa - 1
star
A
Ballerina’s Tale (D) - 2 ½ stars
Ballet 422
(D) - 2 ½ stars
Batkid
Begins (D) - 3 stars
Beasts of No
Nation - 1 star
Beltracchi:
The Art of Forgery (D) - 2 stars
Best of
Enemies (D) - 3 stars
The Big
Short - 3 stars
Black Mass -
2 stars
Black or
White - 2 ½ stars
The Black
Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (D) - 3 stars
Black Sea -
2 stars
Black Souls
- 2 stars
Blackhat - 1
½ stars
The Boy Next
Door - 1 ½ stars
Breathe - 2 stars
Bridge of
Spies - 2 ½ stars
A Brilliant
Young Mind - 1 ½ stars
Brooklyn - 2
½ stars
Burnt - 1
star
By the Sea -
3 ½ stars
Carol - 3
stars
Cartel Land
(D) - 2 stars
Censored
Voices (D) - 1 ½ stars
Chappie - 2
½ stars
Cinderella -
2 ½ stars
Clouds of
Sils Maria - 3 ½ stars
Coming Home
- 1 ½ stars
Concussion -
2 ½ stars
The
Connection - 2 ½ stars
Cop Car - 2 ½ stars
Creed - 2 ½
stars
Criminal
Activities - 2 stars
Cut Bank - 1
½ stars
The D Train
- 2 ½ stars
Daddy’s Home
- 1 ½ stars
The Danish
Girl - 1 ½ stars
Danny
Collins - 3 stars
Dark Places
- 1 star
The Death of
“Superman Lives”: What Happened? (D) - 1 star
Deli Man (D)
- 3 stars
Diary of a
Teenage Girl - 2 ½ stars
Digging for
Fire - 2 ½ stars
Dior and I
(D) - 2 stars
Dope - 2
stars
Dreamcatcher
(D) - 2 ½ stars
Dream/Killer
(D) - 3 stars
Drunk Stoned
Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (D) - 2 stars
The Duff - 2
stars
The Duke of
Burgundy - 2 ½ stars
Eden - 1 ½
stars
Effie Gray -
1 ½ stars
The End of
the Tour - 3 stars
Entourage - 1
star
Everest - 3
stars
Ex Machina -
1 ½ stars
Experimenter
- 2 stars
The Face of
an Angel - 1 star
Far From the
Madding Crowd - 1 ½ stars
The Farewell
Party - 2 stars
50 Shades of
Grey - 2 ½ stars
The Film
Critic - 2 stars
Finders
Keepers (D) - 3 stars
5 to 7 - 3
stars
Flowers - 2
stars
Focus - 3 ½
stars
Fort Tilden
- 2 ½ stars
45 Years - 2
stars
Freeheld - 3
½ stars
Furious 7 - 3
½ stars
Gemma Bovery - 2 ½ stars
Get Hard - 2
stars
Gett: The
Trial of Viviane Amsalem - 3 stars
The Gift - 3 ½ stars
Girlhood - 2
½ stars
Glass Chin -
1 star
Going Clear:
Scientology and the Prison of Belief (D) - 2 ½ stars
The Good Dinosaur - 1 ½ stars
The Good Dinosaur - 1 ½ stars
Good Kill - 2
½ stars
Goodbye to
Language 3D - ½ star
Grandma - 2
½ stars
The Gunman -
1 ½ stars
The Hateful
Eight - 3 ½ stars
He Named Me
Malala (D) - 2 stars
Hitchcock/Truffaut
(D) - 2 stars
Home - 2
stars
An Honest
Liar (D) - 2 ½ stars
Hot Pursuit
- 1 star
Hot Tub Time
Machine 2 - 1 star
Human
Capital - 2 ½ stars
The Hunting
Ground (D) - 3 ½ stars
I Am Michael
- 2 stars
I Smile Back
- 3 stars
I’ll See You
in My Dreams - 3 stars
In the Heart
of the Sea - 2 stars
In the Name
of My Daughter - 2 stars
Infinitely
Polar Bear - 1 star
Ingrid
Bergman – In Her Own Words (D) - 2 stars
Inside Out -
1 ½ stars
The Intern -
1 ½ stars
Iris (D) - 2
½ stars
Irrational
Man - 3 stars
Jafar
Panahi’s Taxi - 2 ½ stars
James White
- 2 stars
Janis:
Little Girl Blue (D) - 2 ½ stars
Jimmy’s Hall
- 1 ½ stars
Joy - 2 ½
stars
Jurassic
World - 1 ½ stars
The Keeping
Room - 1 ½ stars
Kingsman:
The Secret Service - 1 star
Kumiko, the
Treasure Hunter - 1 ½ stars
Labyrinth of
Lies - 2 stars
The Lady in
the Van - 2 ½ stars
The Last
Five Years - 2 ½ stars
Learning to
Drive - 2 ½ stars
Legend – 3 stars
Lila &
Eve - 1 ½ stars
Listen to Me
Marlon (D) - 2 ½ stars
A Little
Chaos - 1 ½ stars
Live From
New York! (D) - 1 ½ stars
The Loft - 1
½ stars
Loitering
with Intent - 1 star
Lost River -
1 star
Love &
Mercy - 2 ½ stars
Love at
First Fight - 1 ½ stars
Love the
Coopers - 1 star
Mad Max:
Fury Road - 1 ½ stars
Madame
Bovary - 2 ½ stars
Magic Mike
XXL - 2 stars
Man From
Reno - 3 stars
The Man From
U.N.C.L.E. - 1 ½ stars
Man Up - 1 star
Manos Sucias
- 1 ½ stars
The Martian
- 2 stars
Match - 1 ½
stars
McFarland,
USA - 2 ½ stars
Me and Earl
and the Dying Girl - 1 ½ stars
Meadowland -
1 ½ stars
Meet the
Patels (D) - 3 stars
Merchants of
Doubt (D) - 3 stars
Meru (D) - 3
stars
The
Messenger (D) - 2 ½ stars
The Mind of
Mark DeFriest (D) - 1 ½ stars
Miss You
Already - 2 ½ stars
Mission:
Impossible Rogue Nation - 2 ½ stars
Mississippi
Grind - 1 ½ stars
Mistress
America - 2 stars
Monkey
Kingdom (D) - 2 ½ stars
Mortdecai - 1
star
Mr. Holmes -
1 ½ stars
A Murder in
the Park (D) - 3 stars
Mustang - 3
stars
The New
Girlfriend - 2 ½ stars
The Night
Before - 2 stars
1971 (D) - 3
stars
99 Homes - 3
stars
No Escape - 1
star
October Gale
- 2 ½ stars
The
100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared - 2 ½ stars
An Open
Secret (D) - 1 ½ stars
Our Brand is
Crisis - 3 stars
The
Outrageous Sophie Tucker (D) - 2 ½ stars
The
Overnight - 3 ½ stars
Paddington -
3 stars
Paper Towns
- 2 ½ stars
Paulette - 1
star
Pawn
Sacrifice - 1 ½ stars
Peace
Officer (D) - 3 stars
Peggy
Guggenheim: Art Addict (D) - 2 stars
People
Places Things - 2 stars
Phoenix - 1 ½ stars
Pixels - 2 ½
stars
Predestination
- 2 ½ stars
Prophet’s
Prey (D) - 2 stars
Queen &
Country - 2 stars
Queen of
Earth - 1 ½ stars
Red Army (D)
- 3 stars
Results - 1
½ stars
A Reunion - 1
star
The Revenant
- 2 ½ stars
The Rewrite
- 1 ½ stars
Ricki and
the Flash - 2 ½ stars
Room - 1 ½
stars
Rosenwald
(D) - 2 ½ stars
Run All
Night - 1 ½ stars
The Salt of
the Earth (D) - 2 stars
The
Salvation - 2 ½ stars
Samba - 2 ½
stars
San Andreas
- 3 stars
Sand Dollars
- 2 stars
The Second
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - 1 ½ stars
The Second
Mother - 3 stars
Secret in
Their Eyes - 3 ½ stars
Self/less -
1 star
Sembene! (D)
- 1 ½ stars
The Seven
Five (D) - 3 stars
’71 - 2 ½
stars
Seymour: An
Introduction (D) - 2 ½ stars
Shaun the
Sheep Movie - 2 ½ stars
She’s Funny
That Way - 1 ½ stars
Sicario - 3
½ stars
Sisters - 3
stars
Sleeping
with Other People - 2 stars
Slow West - 2
stars
Son of a Gun
- 3 stars
Son of Saul
- 1 ½ stars
Song of the
Sea - 2 stars
Sound of
Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story (D) - 2 ½ stars
Southpaw - 2
½ stars
Spectre - 2
stars
Spotlight - 4
stars
Spy - 3
stars
The Stanford
Prison Experiment - 3 stars
Staten
Island Summer - 1 ½ stars
Steve Jobs -
3 stars
Steve Jobs:
The Man in the Machine (D) - 1 ½ stars
Straight
Outta Compton - 2 ½ stars
Suffragette
- 1 ½ stars
Sunshine
Superman (D) - 2 ½ stars
Tab Hunter
Confidential (D) - 2 ½ stars
Taken 3 - 1 ½ stars
Tangerines -
3 stars
Ted 2 - 2
stars
Ten Thousand
Saints - 3 stars
Terminator
Genisys - 2 ½ stars
(T)error (D)
- 2 stars
Testament of
Youth - 1 ½ stars
The 33 - 1 ½
stars
3 ½ Minutes,
10 Bullets (D) - 2 stars
3 Hearts - 1
½ stars
Timbuktu - 3
stars
Time out of
Mind - 2 ½ stars
Tom at the
Farm - 1 ½ stars
Tomorrowland
- 1 star
Top Spin (D)
- 3 stars
Trainwreck -
3 stars
True Story -
1 ½ stars
Trumbo - 3 stars
Truth - 3 ½
stars
24 Days - 3
stars
Two Days,
One Night - 2 stars
Unexpected -
2 stars
Very
Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists (D) - 2 ½
stars
Victoria - 2
stars
The Walk - 1
½ stars
A Walk in
the Woods - 2 ½ stars
We Come as
Friends (D) - 1 ½ stars
The Wedding
Ringer - 3 stars
Welcome to
Leith (D) - 3 stars
Welcome to
Me - 2 stars
We’ll Never
Have Paris - 1 ½ stars
What Our
Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (D) - 1 ½ stars
When Marnie
Was There - 3 stars
Where to
Invade Next (D) - 3 stars
While We’re
Young - 1 ½ stars
A Wolf at
the Door - 1 ½ stars
The Wolfpack
(D) - 1 ½ stars
Woman in
Gold - 2 ½ stars
The Wonders
- 1 ½ stars
The Wrecking
Crew (D) - 3 stars
Youth - 3
stars
Z for
Zachariah - 1 ½ stars
Zero
Motivation - 2 stars
Totals: 587.5
stars – 270 films
Average:
2.18 stars
Number of
Star Ratings:
4 stars – 1
3.5 stars –
13
3 stars – 52
2.5 stars –
66
2 stars – 48
1.5 stars –
66
1 star – 23
0.5 stars - 1
0 stars - 0
0.5 stars - 1
0 stars - 0
45 Years, The Hateful Eight, Concussion, Where to Invade Next, The Revenant, Joy, Daddy's Home, Anomalisa, What's Coming Soon to Jordan On Film
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| 45 Years |
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| The Hateful Eight |
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| Concussion |
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| Where to Invade Next |
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| The Revenant |
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| Joy |
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| Daddy's Home |
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| Anomalisa |
Quick capsules on the final at-bats for a year with many singles and doubles but few home runs:
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