Films of 2015

(Gradings A-F)

• Foxcatcher (Miller, 2014) B+
• Cold in July (Mickle, 2014) C+
• Whiplash (Chazelle, 2014) A-
• Take Shelter (Nichols, 2011) B+
• The Babadook (Kent, 2014) B
• La Haine (Kassovitz, 1995) B
• Birdman (Inarritu, 2014) B+
• Big Eyes (Burton, 2014) C
• The Imitation Game (Tyldum, 2014) C+
• Dear White People (Simien, 2014) B+
• Six Shooter (McDonagh, 2004) (SF) C+
• Love Is Strange (Sachs, 2014) B-
• Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (Capaldi, 1993) (SF) C-
• Cheap Thrills (Katz, 2013) D+
• The Theory of Everything (Marsh, 2014) C+
• Elway to Marino (30 for 30) (Rodgers, 2013) B
• Catching Hell (30 for 30) (Gibney, 2011) C+
• Bad Boys (30 for 30) (Levitt, 2014) B+
• Slaying the Badger (30 for 30) (Dower, 2014) C+
• American Sniper (Eastwood, 2014) C+
• The Two Escobars (30 for 30) (Zimbalist and Zimbalist, 2010) A-
• When We Were Kings (Gast, 1996) B
• Without Bias (30 for 30) (Fraser, 2009) C+
• Four Days In October (30 for 30) (Waksman, 2010) D
• Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (30 for 30) (Klores, 2010) C+
• ...And Justice for All (Jewison, 1979) B-
• No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (30 for 30) (James, 2010) B
• Presumed Innocent (Pakula, 1990) B-
• Cast Away (Zemeckis, 2000) A
• Patriot Games (Noyce, 1992) B
• The Hunt for Red October (McTiernan,1990) B
• The Firm (Clarke, 1988) B+
• The Limey (Soderbergh, 1999) A-
• Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998) B-
• Kapringen (A Hijacking) (Lindholm, 2012) B
• Jagten (The Hunt) (Vinterberg, 2012) A-
• Pusher (Winding Refn, 1996) B-
• The Great Trade Robbery (30 for 30) (SF) (Zicherman, 2014) B+
• The Irrelevant Giant (30 for 30) (SF) (Silva and Lepore, 2013) A-
• The High Five (30 for 30) (SF) (Jacobs, 2014) B
• The Announcemount (30 for 30) (George, 2012) C
• Good Copy Bad Copy (Christensen, Johnsen, Moltke, 2007) B
• The Visitor (McCarthy, 2007) B+
• Jordan Rides the Bus (30 for 30) (Shelton, 2010) C
• Kings Ransom (30 for 30) (Berg, 2009) B-
• The Deal (30 for 30) (Barnicle and Barnicle, 2014) C+
• The House of Steinbrenner (30 for 30) (Kopple, 2010) D
• Fletch (Ritchie, 1985) B+
• Revolutionary Road (Mendes, 2009) A-
• Mystery Road (Sen, 2013) C+
• The Unknown Known (Morris, 2013) A
• Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005) A-
• Festen (The Celebration) (Vinterberg, 1998) A-
• A Hard Day (Kim, 2014) B+
• The Hit (Frears, 1984) B+
• Wall Street (Stone, 1987) C-
• The Price of Gold (30 for 30) (Burstein, 2014) C+
• The Fab Five (30 for 30) (Hehir, 2011) A
• I Hate Christian Laettner (30 for 30) (Karpf, 2015) B-
• Saturday Night Fever (Badham, 1977) A-
• Far from the Madding Crowd (Schlesinger, 1967) A-
• The Mission (Joffe, 1986) B+
• The Opposition (30 for 30) (SF) (Edelman and Plunkett, 2014) B
• The Searchers (Ford, 1956) A
• The Shootist (Siegel, 1976) B
• Jude (Winterbottom, 1996) B+
• Coogan's Bluff (Siegel, 1968) C
• Be Kind Rewind (Gondry, 2008) B-
• 25th Hour (Lee, 2002) B+
• Blow Out (De Palma, 1981) A-
• Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969) A-
• Kung Fury Sandberg, 2015) B+
• Jurassic World (Trevorrow, 2015) B-
• An Honest Liar (Weinstein and Measom, 2014) B+
• Trainwreck (Apatow, 2015) B-
• Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015) A
• Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (McQuarrie, 2015) B+
• Inside Out (Docter, 2015) B
• Black Mass (Cooper, 2015) C-
• My Dinner with Andre (Malle, 1981) B-
• The Secret in Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009) B+
• Marathon Man (Schlesinger, 1976) C+
• The Squeeze (Apted, 1977) B
• Sitting Target (Hickox, 1972) B
• Enter the Dragon (Clouse, 1973) B+
• The Offence (Lumet, 1972) B
• Southern Comfort (Hill, 1981) B+
• Blackfish (Cowperthwaite, 2013) B+
• A Room for Romeo Brass (Meadows, 1999) B
• Le Donk & Scor-zay-ze (Meadows, 2009) C
• Inside Job (Ferguson, 2010) C+
• Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011) B+
• Bad Santa (Zwigoff, 2003) B
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams, 2015) B
• The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015) B+
• The Revenant (Iñárritu, 2015) B+
• Steve Jobs (Boyle, 2015) A