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Mad Max: Fury Road(2015)stretch my mind, thrill me, up my adrenaline · From Dana Stevens at Slate: The majority of Fury Road’s effects were done without using CGI, but even so, the onslaught of action is so fast-paced and overpowering there’s little time to appreciate Miller’s analog artistry, and the feeling of being inside a video game sinking sensation familiar from less carefully orchestrated action movies sometimes takes over. |
Master of None(2015)enlighten me, make me laugh, stretch my mind · From Willa Paskin at Slate: The 10-episode series, co-created by Ansari and Alan Yang…is not a cringe comedy but a comedy of manners, fascinated by anthropology and etiquette, by how we behave and how we should behave. |
Room(2015)give me hope, shock me, stretch my mind · From Dana Stevens at Slate: Though it goes to places as dark as any you could imagine, Room carries at its heart a message of hope: Two people in four walls can create a world worth surviving for, if they love each other enough. |
Shaun the Sheep Movie(2015)find me fun, give me hope, make me laugh · From Elise Nakhnikian at Slant Magazine: It has generous lashings of Aardman Animations’ trademark warmth, visual inventiveness, and satisfying Claymation tactility. |
Sleeping with Other People(2015)From Brad Wheeler at Toronto Globe and Mail: Writer-director Leslye Headland has made a film that is saucy and sweet, for the boys and for the girls — an R-rated Seinfeld, not that there’s anything wrong with that. |
Spotlight(2015)From Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian: Old-style journalism triumphs in the story of the real-life team who knocked on doors and scoured the cuttings library to reveal a scandal that may have begun centuries ago. |