The Top 10 Films of 2015: From Hostile NYC Microindies to the Vulnerable Cloud
The Mend: Words are weapons in John Magary’s well-observed feature debut, marvelously prickly, fascinatingly arrhythmic, and more or less right on about the welter of brotherhood. After Carol and Heaven Knows What, it’s also the third great New York story on this list—everyone holes up here in a Harlem brownstone.
Results: He made his name as a chronicler of the mumbly mores of Northeastern postgrads, but Andrew Bujalski has really hit his stride with his Austin films—first the thrift-store account Beeswax and now the higher-fi Results—both about work-life imbalances. In the new film, the writer-director coaches Guy Pearce to what might be the performance of the year as a gym owner failing to live up to his own holistic-health precepts.