Everybody Wants Some!! movie review

dir. by Richard Linklater
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In 1993, director Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused was released, a coming-of-age film which would later become one of the director's few entries in the Criterion Collection. Following the success of his 2014 opus Boyhood, he began work on a "spiritual sequel," which finally materialized as Everybody Wants Some!!, a film which features an entirely different cast but has been widely praised for capturing the same spirit. I haven't seen Dazed and Confused, but even with my relative lack of experience with Linklater's more modest films, Everybody Wants Some!! is nothing short of delightful.

Zootopia movie review

dir. by Bryon Howard and Rich Moore
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Due to the delay of Pixar's The Good Dinosaur, the latest Walt Disney Animation Studios picture was delayed to 2016. Much like Wreck-It Ralph and Big Hero 6, Zootopia set itself apart with a unique premise, and attracted much anticipation as all Disney animated films do. Thankfully, while it's arguably still not up to Pixar's impeccably high standard, Zootopia is quite possibly the best Walt Disney Animation Studios picture in recent memory.

The Witch movie review

dir. by Robert Eggers

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It's rare that an independent film receives a wide release, and almost unheard of that an indie horror flick will be sent to multiplexes across the continent. And yet, The Witch, one of the biggest festival darlings of 2015, has been presented to mainstream audiences, courtesy of independent house A24 in their first wide release to date. Films like this have historically not gone over well with mainstream moviegoers, and The Witch has been no exception, notoriously becoming subject to ridicule from disrespectful audiences. In spite of this, it's been a critical darling, again igniting the fire between film critics and your average joe.

So of course it's absolutely phenomenal. 

Deadpool movie review

dir. by Tim Miller
In 2009, the enduringly popular Marvel anti-hero Deadpool, real name Wade Wilson, made his first appearance on the big screen in the critically lambasted X-Men Origins: Wolverine. This appearance, which largely ignored his defining characteristics in the comics, proved wildly unpopular, and fans have been clamouring for a better representation of the character ever since. Now, in 2015, we have Deadpool, which isn't quite the movie this character deserves, but should please fans enough until that movie does come.

Hail, Caesar! movie review

dir. by Joel & Ethan Coen
Fresh off of writing Spielberg's award-nominated Bridge of Spies, the Coen Brothers return with an ode to a long-past age of Hollywood that, while wildly entertaining, fails to build into a cohesive whole, and feels both narratively and thematically scattershot as a result.

My 20 Favourite Films of 2015

Over the course of the past year, I have seen 53 feature films. This is the largest ending number I've had since I started this blog, and in that time, I've seen many films which I truly enjoyed. I haven't seen everything, but 53 is no insignificant number, and in that number I was able to see many that I greatly enjoyed. To conclude the year, here are 20 of its the films that I enjoyed the most.

The worst film I saw this year is The Cobbler, for the record.

Carol movie review

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dir. by Todd Haynes
There is no way I could possibly do this justice. I'm going to try anyway.