Thousands of movies come out every year, but which are the cream of the crop? Time Warner Cable News movie critic Neil Rosen compiled a list of the ten best films of 2015.
10. Love & Mercy
Love & Mercy looked at Beach Boys leader, Brian Wilson, in the most unconventional of ways and the results paid off. Paul Dano and John Cusack both starred, playing this tormented musical savant at different points in life.
9. The Overnight
The Overnight was a whacked out, very funny sex comedy that kept surprising me every step of the way. Adam Scott and Taylor Shilling were great, but Jason Schwartzman made me laugh hard as he stole every scene.
8. Phoenix
Phoenix was about a disfigured concentration camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstructive surgery, who goes looking for her husband, who may have betrayed her to the Nazi's. It was both mesmerizing and suspenseful.
7. Dairy Of A Teenage Girl
Diary of A Teenage Girl was an unconventional, brutally honest, raw and twisted coming of age story. Kudos to Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgard for their bold work.
6. Ant-Man
Ant-Man was the best comic book, superhero movie to come along in quite some time. Co-writer and star Paul Rudd, made it engaging, fun and funny. Plus the special effects were great.
5. Spy
Spy was a hilarious 007 parody with a new twist. Melissa McCarthy has never been funnier and Jason Statham, poking fun at his own image, was also a riot.
4. Experimenter
Experimenter looked at a bunch of radical behavioral experiments, conducted in 1961, that tested ordinary people and their willingness to obey authority. It was fascinating and eye-opening.
3. Steve Jobs
With Steve Jobs, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and director Danny Boyle found an ingenious new way to paint a vivid picture of this iconic figure, by only focusing on three key days in his life.
2. Spotlight
My favorite two movies of the year are almost a tie. Spotlight was a riveting exploration of how investigative journalism works, as The Boston Globe uncovered a horrific scandal that rocked the Catholic church to its core. It was a brilliant, absorbing movie, filled with great performances.
1. Brooklyn
Then there's Brooklyn. It touched my heart like no other film did this year. Saorise Ronin deserves an Oscar for her mesmerizing, multi-layered turn as a homesick Irish immigrant, all alone in 1950's New York, who finds romance with a smitten Italian plumber, played engagingly by Emory Cohen. I just love this movie!