2015 Releases I'd Recommend
Looks like I will only see seven of 2015's films in 2015.…
Looks like I will only see seven of 2015's films in 2015.…
Jan 3
Dec 31
twice
Films I saw for the first time in 2015, ranked, with reviews…
Stan Lee 2
Ray Chan 2
Jim Barr 2
Pixar 4
dentsu 3
Nippon Television Network Corporation 3
TOHO 2
Lee Unkrich 4.5
Karl Freund 4.5
Jeremy Cohen 4.5
Ryan Ross 4.5
Andrew Stanton 3.0
Dan Pascall 4.5
Kev Harwood 4.5
Ben Barrowman 4.5
Hiroyuki Ito 4.5
Peter Kohn 4.5
Amy Lauritsen 4.5
Hans Stumpf 4.5
Dixie Sensburg 4.5
Scott R. Beal 4.5
Herman Schlom 4.5
Matthew Sharp 4.0
Josh Robertson 4.0
Ben Howard 4.0
P.J. Voeten 4.0
Andre Weavind 4.0
Robyn Glaser 4.0
Emma Jamvold 4.0
Mark Gustafson 4.5
Peter MacDonald 4.5
Jonathan Taylor 4.5
Mark A. Walsh 4.5
Alan Barillaro 4.5
Yoshifumi Kondo 4.5
Masashi Ando 4.5
Kitarou Kousaka 4.5
Martin Scali 4.0
Roger Guyett 4.0
Laura Wootton 4.0
Grace McInnes 4.0
Stephanie Jolly 4.0
Albertine Selvik 4.0
Roger Christian 4.0
George Lucas 4.0
Crispin Reece 4.0
Katsuya Kondo 4.0
Alexander Witt 4.0
John Mahaffie 3.5
Molly Cooper 4.5
Allison Abbate 4.5
David J. Grant 4.5
Jonas Rivera 4.5
Mark Nielsen 4.5
Jinko Gotoh 4.5
Graham Walters 4.5
Alejandro González Iñárritu 4.5
Arnon Milchan 4.5
John Lesher 4.5
Drew P. Houpt 4.5
Christina Won 4.5
James B. Harris 4.5
Kirk Douglas 4.5
Tod Browning 4.5
E.M. Asher 4.5
Arnon Milchan 4.5
Steven M. Rales 4.5
Nik Korda 4.5
Andrew Stanton 4.5
Yasuyoshi Tokuma 4.5
Seiichiro Ujiie 4.5
Yutaka Narita 4.5
Seiji Okuda 4.5
Molly Conners 4.5
Sarah E. Johnson 4.5
Stanley Kubrick 4.5
John Lasseter 4.3
Louis D'Esposito 4.0
Stan Lee 4.0
Victoria Alonso 4.0
Alan Fine 4.0
Jeremy Latcham 4.0
Steven Mnuchin 4.0
Molly Cooper 4.0
Noah Baumbach 4.5
James Gunn 4.5
Nicole Perlman 4.5
Josh Cooley 4.5
Pete Docter 4.5
Meg LeFauve 4.5
Bob Peterson 4.5
David Reynolds 4.5
Armando Bo 4.5
Alejandro González Iñárritu 4.5
Stanley Kubrick 4.5
Jim Thompson 4.5
Dudley Murphy 4.5
Tod Browning 4.5
Louis Bromfield 4.5
Louis Stevens 4.5
Roald Dahl 4.5
Dan Abnett 4.5
Steve Englehart 4.5
Val Mayerik 4.5
Steve Gerber 4.5
Andy Lanning 4.5
Bill Mantlo 4.5
Keith Giffen 4.5
Steve Gan 4.5
Raymond Carver 4.5
Humphrey Cobb 4.5
Bram Stoker 4.5
Hamilton Deane 4.5
Hayao Miyazaki 4.2
Jim Starlin 4.0
Stefan Zweig 4.0
George Lucas 4.0
Andrew Hodges 4.0
Mickie McGowan 4.5
Natalie Lyon 4.5
Phil M. Friedman 4.5
Kevin Reher 4.3
Matthew Jon Beck 4.2
Tamara Hunter 4.0
Johanna Ray 4.0
Douglas Aibel 4.0
Jina Jay 4.0
Simone Bär 4.0
Alexandra Montag 4.0
Kate Dowd 4.0
Ronna Kress 4.0
Nikki Barrett 4.0
Mito Skellern 4.0
Jen Rudin 4.0
Alyssa Weisberg 4.0
April Webster 4.0
Andrew Weisblum 4.5
Stephen Perkins 4.5
Claire Dodgson 4.5
Ralph Foster 4.5
Craig Wood 4.5
Hughes Winborne 4.5
Fred Raskin 4.5
John Breinholt 4.5
Meagan Costello 4.5
Simon Morgan 4.5
Kevin Nolting 4.5
Jason Brodkey 4.5
Axel Geddes 4.5
David Ian Salter 4.5
Douglas Crise 4.5
Corey Bayes 4.5
Eva Kroll 4.5
Milton Carruth 4.5
Takeshi Seyama 4.2
Maurice Pivar 4.2
Tristan Oliver 4.5
Jeremy Lasky 4.5
Emmanuel Lubezki 4.5
Georg Krause 4.5
Karl Freund 4.5
Patrick Lin 4.2
Ben Davis 4.0
John Seale 4.0
Andrew Jimenez 4.0
Janet Lucroy 4.0
Dan Mindel 4.0
Alec Mills 4.0
Alan Hume 4.0
Óscar Faura 4.0
Peter Deming 4.0
Tom Stern 4.0
Harry Waxman 4.0
Frederick Elmes 4.0
Arthur Edeson 4.0
Gary Spratling 4.5
Julian Morson 4.0
Sam Renton 4.0
Peter Belcher 4.0
Luca Mercuri 4.0
Daniel Nichols 4.0
Simon Harding 4.0
Mark Goellnicht 4.0
Shawn Brennan 4.0
Andrew Rowlands 4.0
Colin Anderson 4.0
Ben Wilson 4.0
Harry K. Garvin 4.0
Peter Wignall 4.0
Albert Carreras 4.0
Paul Hughen 4.0
Toby Farrar 4.5
Paul Oakley 4.5
Edward Xi Chen 4.5
Max Bickley 4.5
Charu Clark 4.5
Mimia Arbelaez 4.5
Burt Peng 4.5
Mathieu Cassagne 4.5
Kathleen Cosby 4.5
Emmanuel Maniez 4.5
Jordan Rempel 4.5
Julien Schreyer 4.5
Brian Boyd 4.5
Katie Bickley 4.5
Wen-Chin Hsu 4.5
Jonathan Kiker 4.5
Maria Powers 4.5
Robert Sciretta 4.5
Sungyeon Joh 4.2
Laura Howie 4.5
Jonathan Taylor 4.5
Rodrigo Prieto 4.5
Stanley Kubrick 4.5
David Burr 4.0
Dimitri Zaunders 4.0
Sven Vosloo 4.0
Steven Hall 4.0
Barry Idoine 4.0
Alexander Witt 4.0
George Trafton 4.0
Jack Eagan 4.0
Brian Mussetter 3.5
Lance Acord 3.5
Eduard Grau 3.5
Wyatt Troll 3.5
Michael Swan 3.5
Teo Lee 3.5
John Gamble 3.5
Ralph Eggleston 4.5
Nelson Lowry 4.5
Kevin Thompson 4.5
John Hoffman 4.5
Herman Rosse 4.5
Charles Wood 4.0
Patricia Norris 4.0
Adam Stockhausen 4.0
Colin Gibson 4.0
Lou Romano 4.0
Darren Gilford 4.0
Norman Reynolds 4.0
Fred Hole 4.0
James L. Schoppe 4.0
Maria Djurkovic 4.0
Dante Ferretti 4.0
Owen Paterson 4.0
Mark Friedberg 4.0
Alice Bird 4.5
Alan Payne 4.5
Bert Berry 4.5
Kevin Dart 4.5
Robin Cooper 4.5
Randy Berrett 4.5
Ricky Nierva 4.5
Anthony Christov 4.5
Kazuo Oga 4.5
Nizou Yamamoto 4.5
Satoshi Kuroda 4.5
Chris Shriver 4.5
Ludwig Reiber 4.5
Stephen Swain 4.2
Peter Dorme 4.2
Naoya Tanaka 4.2
Charles D. Hall 4.2
Mark Swain 4.0
Timothy Joliat 4.5
Judy Gurr 4.5
Matthew DeTitta 4.5
John Hoffman 4.5
Herman Rosse 4.2
Richard Roberts 4.0
Josef Brandl 4.0
Lisa Thompson 4.0
Nicki Gardiner 4.0
Kristen Anderson 4.0
Katie Sharrock 4.0
Lee Sandales 4.0
Michael Ford 4.0
Harry Lange 4.0
Leslie Morales 4.0
Alicia Davies 4.5
Johann Kunz 4.5
Erwin Lange 4.5
Michel Gagné 4.0
Philip Bartko 4.0
David A. Poole 4.0
Michael Wilmot 4.0
Bart Barber 4.0
Brendon O'Dell 4.0
Hanin Ouidder 4.0
Don Power 4.0
John P. Fulton 4.0
Ken Strickfaden 4.0
Joe Day 4.0
Ryan Arndt 3.5
Gary Paller 3.5
James Paradis 3.5
Don Dolan 3.5
Robert L. Slater 3.5
Sally Spencer 4.5
Tom Collier 4.5
Mark Waring 4.5
Tim Ledbury 4.5
Liz Chan 4.5
Stephane Ceretti 4.5
Nicolas Aithadi 4.5
Jonathan Fawkner 4.5
Phil Sims 4.5
Susan Pickett 4.5
Christoph Roth 4.5
Peter G. Travers 4.5
Bob Whitehill 4.5
Claire Faggioli 4.5
Gary Bruins 4.5
Jason Johnston 4.5
Graham Moloy 4.5
Kearsley Higgins 4.5
Ivy Agregan 4.5
Laura Meyer 4.5
Max Cohen 4.5
Jeff Kryvicky 4.0
Louis Gonzales 4.0
Dan Perri 3.5
Susan Bradley 3.0
Paul Howell 4.5
Kim McGarrity 4.5
Tara Macken 4.5
Caitlin Dechelle 4.5
Matt Leonard 4.5
Rashid Phoenix 4.5
Reid Harper 4.5
Kofi Yiadom 4.5
Daniel Stevens 4.5
Casey O'Neill 4.5
Rowley Irlam 4.5
Dani Biernat 4.5
Maurice Lee 4.5
Rory Mulroe 4.5
Brandon Melendy 4.5
Francesca Jaynes 3.5
Kenny Wormald 3.5
Maija Garcia 2.0
Tyler Bates 4.5
Thomas Newman 4.5
Antonio Sánchez 4.5
Gerald Fried 4.5
Joe Hisaishi 4.2
Simon Rhodes 4.0
Tom Holkenborg 4.0
Paul Giovanni 4.0
Patrick Doyle 4.0
Bernhard Kaun 4.0
Lalo Schifrin 4.0
Jason Moran 4.0
Edward B. Powell 4.0
John Williams 3.6
Danny Elfman 3.5
Hans Zimmer 3.5
Randy Newman 3.0
Jack Johnson 3.0
Axl Rose 3.0
Stephen Sondheim 2.5
John Lennon 2.5
Paul McCartney 2.5
Shannon Mills 4.5
David Evans 4.5
Andie Derrick 4.5
Brian Emrich 4.5
Jay Peck 4.5
Stefan Henrix 4.5
John Camino 4.5
Steve Browell 4.5
Sven Taits 4.5
Harry Barnes 4.5
Jacob Ribicoff 4.5
Stuart Stanley 4.5
Jeff Dalmaine 4.5
Joe Maher 4.5
Mike King 4.5
Paul Jarvis 4.5
Simon Hayes 4.5
Chris Manning 4.5
Albert Wolsky 4.5
Ilse Dubois 4.5
Vera West 4.5
Ed Ware 4.5
Alexandra Byrne 4.0
Milena Canonero 4.0
Jenny Beavan 4.0
Michael Kaplan 4.0
Sammy Sheldon 4.0
Patricia Norris 4.0
Deborah Hopper 4.0
Sue Yelland 4.0
Sandy Powell 4.0
Amy Stofsky 4.0
Chu Sheng-Hsi 4.0
Charles LeMaire 4.0
Kay Nelson 4.0
Mary Zophres 3.5
Debbi Salmon 4.5
Vera Steimberg 4.5
Charlie Hounslow 4.5
Nicky Knowles 4.5
Jane O'Kane 4.5
Susie Redfern 4.5
David White 4.5
Claire Burgess 4.5
Nelly Guimaras 4.5
Rondi Scott 4.5
Judy Chin 4.5
Arthur Schramm 4.5
Jessica Brooks 4.2
Jack Pierce 4.2
Norma Webb 4.0
Heike Merker 4.0
Carol Waugh 4.5
Jerry Popolis 4.5
Kat Drazen 4.5
Heike Merker 4.0
Norma Webb 4.0
Julie Dartnell 4.0
Catherine Biggs 4.0
Lisa Tomblin 4.0
Kathryn Fa 4.0
Andrew Simonin 4.0
Helga Bosman 4.0
Mike Lockey 4.0
Paul LeBlanc 4.0
Patricia Miller 4.0
Nibariki 4.5
Tokuma Shoten 4.5
dentsu Music And Entertainment 4.5
TNDG 4.5
M Productions 4.5
Channel 101 4.5
American Empirical Pictures 4.3
Pixar 4.0
Marvel Studios 4.0
My wife told me this was a classic, but then confessed that she "probably hadn't seen it all the way through" which is annoying because she's been saying "I want my two dollars" to me for 22 years.
This is a pretty insubstantial teen comedy, fairly gentle compared to other…
Films I saw for the first time in 2015, ranked, with reviews that are definitely shorter and probably better than what I wrote when I saw them.
4.4
2.0
4.3
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