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Issue 31: Reflections on 2015

December 2015

FAQ About The Best Movie Of 2015

Fran Hoepfner·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
Magic Mike XXL isn’t a movie that panders to women; it’s a movie that worships women.
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Cate Blanchett in CAROL | art by Brianna Ashby

The Lady Pays Off

Karina Wolf·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
As Carol, Blanchett is both boldly assured and covertly lost. Her voice is deepened and authoritative, her body language at once contained and careless.
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Outside Inside Out, Looking In: A Parent’s Reflections

Chad Perman·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
Inside Out is a big-budget, mass-market Hollywood studio movie that actually embraces sadness as a necessary thing.
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Either it’s Raining, or I’m Dreaming

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
That old Joan Didion aphorism—“We tell ourselves stories in order to live”—has never felt more real to me than it did this year.
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Ride Eternal

Tarra Martin·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
This is at the core of what I love most about the Mad Max franchise: each film manages to present the deeply traditional in a way that somehow feels daringly original.
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Sexuality and Crimson Peak

Jessica Ritchey·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
Crimson Peak is a beautiful, aching meditation on grief, mourning, and the scars that our physical and psychic histories leave on us.
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How Do You Say No to God?

Christopher Fraser·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
The reporters in Spotlight, finally seeing a grand old institution for the corrupt monster that it is, channel their newfound anger into shining a light in the darkness.
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Elegance, Beauty, Anxiety and Torment

Lisa McElroy·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
I’m rarely reminded of Godard when watching modern movies, but Saint Laurent, a biopic that reads more like a time-travel historical dialogue shot by 60s-era Godard, comes pretty close.
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Drink and a Movie: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988)

Alissa Wilkinson·
ColumnsIssue 31: Reflections on 2015
By the end of the season I’m feeling not quite blue, but maybe a little silver, and I want to nestle into remembering that there is a fine tomorrow on its way no matter how dark today is.
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BW/DR Staff Picks: The Best Films of 2015

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 31: Reflections on 2015
Our editorial staff and regular contributors on the movies they liked most in 2015.
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