2.《聚焦》

　　现在很多的电影都在尝试着开辟自己独特的方式。《聚焦》电影是建立在普利策奖获得者波士顿环球时报团队所报道事件上的，揭露了天主教会长达数十年的秘密性虐待。演员阵容豪华，包括Mark Ruffalo，Michael Keaton，Rachel McAdams，Brian D’Arcy James，John Slattery，Live Schreiber和Stanley Tucci，这个事件的发展决绝直接，同时也充分地展示了他们的努力与付出，决心，以及那些真的非常擅长自己的本职工作的人们。在这个微博网络横行，以及各媒体都争做第一的时代，《聚焦》完完全全展示了新闻调查在这个年代是如何一步步在那些看似乏味繁杂的信息当中深入挖掘，以及坚定地发掘那些隐藏极深的秘密的力量与决心。

　　1.《火星救援》

　　《火星救援》中包含了很多的元素与事件，但它成功地将它们全都完美塑造了出来，并且取悦了大部分观众，所以这是一部及其罕见的好电影。Matt Damon在这里是一个谦虚聪明，很有魅力，且不乏幽默的登上了火星的宇航员。而Ridley Scott导演的这个太空事件严肃但不沉闷，可怕但不阴沉黯淡，有趣且不绝望，惊险却不低俗，易被书呆子技术宅们所接受又不与大众的生活疏离。尽管它的设定和标题都显的颇为遥远，但是它的核心，则是一个非常人性化的生存故事，也是一场对人类的决心和聪明才智的称颂。科技真棒!

　　15. Sicario

　　Moody and haunting -- thanks to the great cinematography by 12-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins -- the dark drug cartel thriller challenges you to think while keeping you on the edge of your seat with no shortage of tense sequences. After being a full-metal bitch, Emily Blunt again shows she's comfortably at home in the action world, but it's Benicio del Toro who steals the film as mysterious hitman Alejandro, giving arguably his best performance since his Oscar-winning turn in Traffic.

　　14. Bridge of Spies

　　There is nothing sexy about Bridge of Spies, but that's the beauty of it. Based on true events and written by the Coen brothers, the Cold War spy-swap drama is a smart, engaging chess game that rewards patience and asks some tough questions about morality and humanity. Tom Hanks is in solid Jimmy Stewart-esque good guy mode as James B. Donovan, the lawyer tasked with negotiating the exchange between a POW and Soviet spy Rudolf Abel -- played by an excellent Mark Rylance -- while Steven Spielberg's admirable craftsmanship packages this type of classic adult film that is too often taken for granted.

　　13. Jurassic World

　　After two subpar sequels, the third time was the charm. Like any good theme park, World takes you on a wild, rip-roaring ride with honest-to-God terrifying dinosaurs, led by a big-time superstar turn from Chris Pratt (in case you still had any doubts after Guardians of the Galaxy) that has fully reawakened the dormant franchise. Just promise to do away with the whole running-away-in-high-heels thing in the sequel, OK, guys?

　　12. Ex Machina

　　With a sleek flair and stellar performances by Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac, Alex Garland's directorial debut is sci-fi at its most thought-provoking. Rather than rely on the usual explosive action sequences with villainous robots, Ex Machina is a cautionary tale on artificial intelligence and an examination on the increasingly disturbing struggle between man and machine.

　　11. Straight Outta Compton

　　Even if you take the iconic rhymes out of the equation, the N.W.A. biopic is just as incendiary and potent. Under the fierce direction of F. Gary Gray and featuring breakthrough performances, including O'Shea Jackson Jr. as his dad Ice Cube, Compton throbs with urgency as it traces a critical turning point in gangsta rap and galvanizes you to fight the system. It is both soberingly of its time and more socially relevant than ever.

　　10. Trainwreck

　　Leave it to Amy Schumer to give us the fresh take on rom-coms that the genre desperately needed. A frank, cynical spin on modern sexual politics with an unapologetic heroine to boot, the comedy is as delightfully sweet and sour as the drinks Amy downs. Plus: The movie thoroughly disproves the notion that athletes can't act, making complete scene-stealers out of LeBron James and John Cena.

　　9. Creed

　　For a film about legacy, Creed is an excellent addition to Rocky's. The seventh entry in the franchise, the drama -- which follows Adonis Creed, the illegitimate son of Apollo, as he works his way into the ring with Rocky Balboa in his corner -- evokes the same gritty underdog spirit of the original while establishing its own pulverizing energy through a rousing performance by Michael B. Jordan and some truly unforgettable fight scenes, including one indelible one-take bout. Giving the Italian Stallion a tough tenderness, Sylvester Stallone also settles nicely into the mentor role as the backbone and heart of Creed.

　　8. Carol

　　An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's groundbreaking novel The Price of Salt -- about a love affair between two women in the '50s -- Todd Haynes' romantic melodrama is a companion piece of sorts to his 2002 gem Far From Heaven. Sumptuously shot and led by the equally exquisite Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Carol is a poetic meditation on longing and hope. Perhaps most powerfully, it makes your heart ache as you realize how much of Carol and Therese's story resonates today.

　　7. Brooklyn

　　Based on Colm Tóibín's novel of the same name, the old-fashioned drama is a simple story brought to luminous life by director John Crowley and a perfectly cast Saoirse Ronan, who plays Eilis, a young Irishwoman immigrating to America in 1952. Poignant and moving, Brooklyn drives home the point that the joys and hardships of change are universal, regardless of where you're from. But the film's biggest accomplishment might just be making you forget that Emory Cohen, as Eilis' charming suitor Tony, is the same person who played Leo on Smash.

　　6. Mad Max: Fury Road

　　As far as action films go, it doesn't get much better than Fury Road. A visual feast of balletic and manic mayhem, George Miller's post-apocalyptic spectacle needs no GCI to put you in the middle of the desert frenzy. The film's best and boldest attribute, however, is its subversive feminist narrative. Tom Hardy might play the titular character, but Fury Road's true hero is Charlize Theron's take-no-prisoners badass Imperator Furiosa.

　　5. Room

　　No movie this year sits with you like Room does. Adapted by Emma Donoghue from her novel of the same name -- about a kidnapped woman and her 5-year-old son who escape from the shed he has known his whole life -- the harrowing drama is an emotionally draining but ultimately uplifting rumination on love, resilience and imagination. Brie Larson is tremendous as Ma and 9-year-old Jacob Tremblay crushes your soul as Jack as he slowly discovers that the world is as boundless as the love between mother and child.

　　4. Steve Jobs

　　You might be disappointed if you go into Steve Jobs expecting a full biopic on the Apple co-founder. Aaron Sorkin instead takes a genius impressionistic route, dividing his script into a theatrical three acts set at three product launches, to offer an incisive character study into the complicated, brilliant and maddening visionary who built an empire because of -- and in spite of -- himself. Danny Boyle's electrifying direction gives even more rhythm to Sorkin's delicious rat-tat-tat words, while the cast, which includes Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels, dazzles behind Michael Fassbender's towering turn as Jobs.

　　3. Inside Out

　　The concept of Inside Out is so complex, you can't believe someone managed to make a movie out of it, let alone come up with such an awe-inspiringly inventive story for it. Featuring impeccable voice work from Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black and Mindy Kaling as the five emotions that operate inside 11-year-old Riley's head, the Pixar masterpiece is funny, intelligent and cathartic in reminding us that our feelings, including, yes, sadness, are valid. They shape who we are and we shouldn't ignore them. It's a simple yet profound notion that will only reverberate more with kids as they, like Riley, grow up.

　　2. Spotlight

　　A lot of movies tend to get in their own way. Spotlight, like the Pulitzer-winning Boston GlobeSpotlight reporting team on which it's based, never veers off its path: expose the Catholic Church's decades-long cover-up of sex abuse. Starring an aces ensemble that includes Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Brian D'Arcy James, John Slattery, Liev Schreiber and Stanley Tucci, the drama is decidedly straightforward, but no less gripping in showcasing hard work, determination and people who are just damn good at their jobs. In the Twitter age of speed and "being first," Spotlight is a valentine to the tedious grind and power of the vanishing breed that is investigative journalism.

　　1. The Martian

　　The Martian is one of those rare films that does a lot of things and excels at all of them to form one wildly entertaining crowd-pleaser. With self-effacing cleverness and a charismatic turn from Matt Damon as a wisecracking astronaut marooned on Mars, the Ridley Scott space flick is serious without being ponderous, scary without being hopelessly bleak, funny without being desperate, thrilling without being cheap and digestibly nerdy without being alienating (no pun intended). And despite its otherworldly setting and title, The Martian, at its core, is a very human story of survival and a celebration of mankind's resolve and ingenuity. Yeah, science!

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