It was perhaps inevitable that the seventh installment of a long-dormant franchise would end up making our top 20.
In other hands, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” could feel like a standard period film about a young woman’s sexual and artistic awakening, but Heller and Powley have made this a vital experience filled with creativity and wonder. Beyond the strong screenplay, the film also incorporates animation from Sara Gunnarsdóttir throughout, a nod to both Minnie’s own cartoons and the original novel’s art. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s novel, the adaptation handles the book’s challenging subject matter -Minnie’s affair with much-older Monroe ( Alexander Skarsgård), her mother’s boyfriend- with apparent ease. In addition to Powley’s breakout performance, “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” marks a bold entry into filmmaking for writer-director Heller. Despite being in her early 20s and British, Powley so perfectly captures Minnie’s San Francisco adolescent artist spirit that we’re eager to doubt the actress’s own biographical details. At the film’s bursting heart is Minnie, played with wide eyes and a heady combination of maturity and naivete by Bel Powley. Marielle Heller’s 1970s-set “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is the rare film that deals frankly with its heroine’s experience of and appreciation for sex while never condemning her for her choices.
#Movies in theaters now 2015 full
Once it’s been reviewed, we’ll be discussing in the film full and will indicate where it would have featured on these best-of lists retroactively. Other late December releases such as “ Joy,” “ The Revenant” and “ The Hateful Eight,” have already been seen by at least one staffer, and though they aren’t featured here, those films will likely pop up in individual staff lists we’ll be running later this month.Ĭlick here for our complete coverage of the Best of 2015Ĭoming-of-sexual-age stories in cinema are usually reserved for boys becoming men, but when such films focus on young women, there’s often either a fuzzy haze of romance or the harsh glare of judgment on its protagonist. Abrams’ Mystery Box remains firmly closed until the week of release. As such, like the National Board of Review or the New York Film Critics Circle or any number of voting groups that are forced to make their decisions without seeing it, ‘The Force Awakens’ won’t be appearing on the bulk of these lists for now. How did it unfold? Take a look below.Ī quick note about our year-end coverage: We, like you and everyone else, haven’t seen “ Star Wars: The Force Awakens” yet. This year, we’d wager that our final list is a more interesting, surprising and, frankly, better line-up. Last year saw “ Under The Skin” as our runaway winner, with “ Birdman,” “ Gone Girl,” “ Foxcatcher” and “ Nightcrawler” also making the Top 10.
#Movies in theaters now 2015 plus
Last year, for the first time, we conducted a poll of Playlist writers and staffers, collating their top tens (10 points for first place, 9 for second etc, plus a bonus point for every list a film was on) into a grand group Top 20.Īlex Garland Warns 'Men' Is Not an 'Intellectual' Film Like 'Ex Machina,' More 'Aggressive'Īnya Taylor-Joy's 'Furiosa' Prequel Won't Be 'Another Chase Movie' - Expect Traditional Dramaģ0 Disturbing Foreign Films to Watch, from Gaspar Noé to Takashi Miikeįrom 'Barbie' to 'Babylon,' Here's Everything Margot Robbie Has in the Works We’ve been celebrating the year in film for a few weeks now, and as we reach the midpoint, it felt like the right time to unveil our list of the Best Films Of 2015. From the multiplex to the arthouse, from hugely expensive blockbusters to micro-budget indies shot with tools you probably have in your pocket, there’s an enormous breadth and depth of great film in 2015. It’s not that there aren’t problems with cinema right now, but anyone who says that there aren’t enough good movies didn’t see enough movies or was seeing the wrong ones. You also hear that movies are exclusively focused on superheroes and teen dystopias, and anyone wanting anything else has turned to the “golden age of television.” To which we say: bullshit.
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