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December 31, 2015
Will Leitch
Will Leitch’s Top Ten Films of 2015
From Ellis Island to Mars, this year's best movies took us far away.
December 30, 2015
Jeet Heer
Star Wars Films Are Not About Good vs. Evil. They’re About Bad Parenting.
For all their lofty narratives, the movies are the fruit of a single family tree.
December 30, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Jennifer Lawrence’s latest movie isn’t very good, which is why her stardom is more certain than ever.
December 30, 2015
Elaine Teng
The Best Scenes of Women in the Movies This Year
The frank, eye-opening moments that made this a landmark year for women on film.
December 30, 2015
Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson’s Top Ten Films of 2015
First-time directors shone this year.
December 29, 2015
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
America’s Most Electable Fictional Presidents
From Selina Meyer to Francis J. Underwood, who is best equipped for the White House?
December 29, 2015
Alex Shephard
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble,” which must be why The Big Short opens with a fake Mark Twain quote.
December 29, 2015
Tim Grierson
Anomalisa: Love, Actually, for Two Imperfect People
Stop-motion animation is more human than not in Charlie Kaufman’s touching, bittersweet sigh of a film.
December 24, 2015
Tim Grierson
Joy: A Manic Cinderella Gets the Job Done
David O. Russell’s quirky hero proves that in his filmmaking, buoyant, messy exuberance has its limits.
December 23, 2015
Suzy Khimm
The first rule of writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official is you can’t talk about writing a Hollywood movie as a high-ranking U.S. government official.
December 23, 2015
Will Leitch
Concussion: Mad as Hell, But Without Much to Fear
A generic hero weighs down the brutal exposure of the most important sports story of the last decade.
December 22, 2015
Alex Shephard
Richard Linklater’s new film looks like it should be called Brohood.
December 22, 2015
Tim Grierson
The Revenant: Man Vs. Wild
Once boyish, now bearded, Leonardo DiCaprio taps into a gripping, primal urgency in Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s survival film.
December 21, 2015
Gwyneth Kelly
Neil deGrasse Tyson is being a real buzzkill about Star Wars.
December 21, 2015
Alex Shephard
The Force Awakens obliterated all of the box office records it was supposed to obliterate.
December 21, 2015
Will Leitch
The Hateful Eight: Hell Is Other People
Eight unusually chatty archetypes are stuck in a room in Quentin Tarantino’s slack western.
December 18, 2015
Alex Shephard
Politicians are trying to co-opt Star Wars and the results are super lame.
December 18, 2015
Hannah K. Gold
A Lost Love Returns from an Icy Grave
In ‘45 Years,’ Charlotte Rampling quietly grapples with her husband’s past.
December 18, 2015
Patti McCarthy
Why Do So Many People Find Meaning in Star Wars?
December 18, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
Here are seven alternative Christmas movies for your holiday viewing pleasure.

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