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

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


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