Ranking every movie

The Manifesto has already delivered its list of the top 10 movies of 2015. Now, it’s time to look at the rest. What follows is a ranked list of every 2015 theatrical release that I’ve seen up to this point. It’s far from comprehensive—as ever, there are a number of films that I’ve failed to see, whether through lack of theatrical distribution, laziness, or bad luck. (The only movie that I truly regret being unable to include here is Son of Saul; I’ll be seeing it this weekend, but I just couldn’t hold off on publishing that long.)

As for the movies I did see, well, there were still quite a few. And while this post is just a pure list, I’ve added hyperlinks to the 56 different titles that I formally reviewed, so you can click over to those for more detailed analysis. Per my custom, I’m also including each film’s director in parentheses, as well as its respective scores on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, so you can see whether I confirm with or diverge from the critical consensus.

I’ll dispense with the usual rhetoric about the arbitrary nature of list-making (besides, I already did that yesterday for the top 10). But please, when you find yourself tempted to exclaim, “How could this idiot possibly rank [X] ahead of [Y]!” just bear in mind that the list is more of a guideline than a firm set of rules.

That should do it. Here are the Manifesto’s rankings of every movie we watched in 2015: Read More