It doesn’t hurt that Sanjay’s Super Team is gentle in spirit, emotionally coherent, and the most widely seen short in the category.
The suicide forest’s cultural value is trivialized in the bum-rush to liberate the main characters from their agonies.
See below for a list of the films that just missed making it onto our list of the best films of 2015, followed by our contributors’ individual ballots.
A simulation of the Holocaust death machine that aptly leaving one sick to one’s stomach.
At the center of the film is a conservative lesson that asks us to abide by society’s capitalistic impulses.
In one of the unlikeliest moves of the show’s run, “Start to Finish” completely pushes pathos to the sidelines.
“Heads Up” culminates with no less than three cliffhangers.
One doesn’t doubt the filmmakers’ empathy for Lili even as one questions its sentimentality.
The episode pauses the season’s forward momentum to engage in a bit of character shading.
The tacky and loose means by which the platitudinous screenplay dances around what ails the football players is just one cog in a whirligig of pat representations.
Throughout, the episode seems almost hell-bent on having audiences eavesdrop on either the least necessary or redundant conversations imaginable.
The episode abounds in articulations of the choices people make in this world to stay alive and to stay sane.
Tomorrow, around water coolers the world over, the conversations will be about whether The Walking Dead’s most cherished character is in fact dead.
One’s proximity to the screen doesn’t alter the significance of Gaspar Noé’s film as the cine-equivalent of clickbait.
The film quickly settles into a depressingly one-note groove as a culture-clashing circus act.
Cary Joji Fukunaga’s artistry registers less as psychological imprint than as a measure of his professional bona fides.
The house-car is a metaphor for Michel Gondry’s desire to make something a little more outside his wheelhouse.
The film is more cognizant of cultural imperialism’s smugness and presumptuousness than its spiritual predecessor, the exploitation classic Cannibal Holocaust.
Every set piece brings to mind an Epcot Center attraction built from borrowed parts, and on a CW show’s budget.
We have no doubt that we’ll be miffed by how some of these categories shake out on Sunday night.