The Top 10 Films of 2015: From Hostile NYC Microindies to the Vulnerable Cloud
Carol: With this Cate Blanchett–Rooney Mara showcase, everyone’s favorite semiotics major, Todd Haynes, has made his most grounded melodrama. Too many on-screen romances streamline the actual falling-in-love part as an entr’acte, but this exquisite piece of work lets that headlong process play out slowly, the flowering of a passion under threat by straitened circumstances.
Entertainment: Gregg Turkington (aka Neil Hamburger) stars in this film about a stage persona reaching its terminally hostile stages in the American West. Rick Alverson’s man-in-landscape study invites speculation by keeping details close to the vest, and profitably so—here the frontier feels like it’s reopening, as the inwardly embattled self shuffles deeper into it.