2015 Top Ten

This year was a bit light with only 87 trips to the theater.  Stupid job and graduation got in the way.  Like last year, this list is culled from the movies I saw in 2015, so some excellent movies are left off the list, most notably Room and Dear White People, which were released at inconvenient times for my schedule. Without further hemming or hawing:

Top 10:
10: Everest - There are still images from this film that haunt me
9. Inside Out - The best Pixar has put out in a while
8. Joy - Jennifer Lawrence's best performance ever
7. Bridge of Spies - A tense WWII spy film showing what the Bond film should have been
6. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl - An adorable movie about love, dying and teenagers
5. Dope - An incredibly fun, well-written indi-flick about nerdy kids out of their element
4. Trumbo - Bryan Cranston stands up for actual freedom
3. 99 Homes - Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield show how terrible the housing crisis was
2. Mad Max: Fury Road - The best of the rebooted franchises this year
1. Ex Machina - Easily the most interesting movie or concept I have seen all year

Honorable Mentions:
Black Sea - Jude Law can still act

Diary of a Teenage Girl - A neat little indi-flick about a girl becoming a woman

Love and Mercy - Good movie about good music
Woman in Gold - Really well-acted movie about the fallout of the Nazis
End of the Tour - Maybe not the most honest bio-pic, but nonetheless entertaining

New for this year: Bottom Five - the worst movies of 2015

There were a lot of mediocre movies, or just poorly produced, but these five were really, really terrible.

5. No Escape - A boring, unintelligible movie about uprisings and survival
4. A Walk in the Woods - Unnecessary and hardly representative of the source material

3. Paper Towns - Few movies have made me this angry at young people
2. Jupiter Ascending - ALL THE EXPLOSIONS!

1. Fantastic Four - Just...awful. Awful.