The Top 10 Films of 2015: From Hostile NYC Microindies to the Vulnerable Cloud
Heaven Knows What: Another entry from an unusually strong year for American microindies, this film managed to tune in to an even more elusive bad-vibes wavelength. Brothers Josh and Benny Safdie (the team behind Daddy Longlegs, my favorite film of 2010) adapted Arielle Holmes’s uptown heroin memoirs and cast her as a version of herself, lucidly tracking the upside-down world of the down-and-out.
Magic Mike XXL: Jurassic World sold all the tickets and Mad Max became the official critics’ pick, but Gregory Jacobs’s sequel was really the movie of the summer, more upbeat than the original but no less deftly choreographed as a roadshow of personalities.