Page 10 December 31, 2015 TORRANCE TRIBUNE Film Review from page 4 school. It is a modern day silent movie with a vibrancy that will leave a lasting impression on those who are willing to experience this unique art film. The Tribe was made for an audience waiting for an authentically beautiful and powerful piece of cinematic art. 5. Ex Machina Ex Machina is one of the most aesthetically beautiful and stylish films to come out this year. Writer/Director Alex Garland’s “Sci-Fi meets Mystery” film tells the story of a young programmer, Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), who is selected to participate in the opportunity to test an artificially intelligent robot, Ava, (Alicia Vikander) created by the tech-wiz recluse and quirk-capitalist Nathan (Oscar Isaac) and discover what qualities make it human enough to possibly pass as such. Suspenseful and intelligent, Ex Machina also stars some of the year’s hottest actors- Vikander can be seen in The Danish Girl and Isaac stars in the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. 4. Room Of the numerous movies circulating Oscars and other awards this year, my favorite is by far and away Room. Best viewed with as little information as possible (the trailer gives away far too much), it is an emotional experience not easily forgotten. Brie Larson delivers one of the strongest performances of her career as Ma, a victim of a kidnapping who has been forced to create a home out of a woodshed where she and her son Jack (Jacob Tremblay) are being held captive. This is a film that represents the pinnacle of dramatic filmmaking and thankfully is receiving the awards attention it deserves. 3. Mad Max: Fury Road Normally, blockbusters are saturated, safe, and meant to be appealing to everyone, but nothing is easy to digest about Mad Max: Fury Road. It is a wild unrestrained ride of non-stop mayhem; in other words, it is an absolute blast. Jumpstarting a franchise that nobody thought needed another entry, and most people born after 1990 have never seen, George Miller reinvigorated his fable to new heights. If every franchise reboot felt as fresh as Fury Road, then I could get behind the industry’s obsession with sequels and reimagining old intellectual properties. I can’t remember the last time action sequences or chase scenes felt so fresh and alive, making this one of the finest action movies of the decade. 2. Victoria Despite the fact that the biggest selling point on this movie is that the entire film is one uninterrupted shot, Victoria is more than just a movie all in a single take. For the first half of the film, director Sebastian Schipper borrows from the styles of Richard Linklater to introduce us to the film’s protagonists, lonely partier Victoria and four men she encounters on her way out of a club. The fact that this film has both the most daring cinematography of the year on top of a compelling set of characters and memorable sequences makes it a film that has everything firing on all cylinders. Victoria is not the type of film that garners awards attention at the end of the year, but for me it is the cinematic experience that invigorated me more than any other movie I saw this year. 1. Anomalisa He is the mind behind some of cinema’s most creative films, such as 1999’s Being John Malkovich, 2002’s Adaptation, and 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – now, screenwriter-turned-director Charlie Kaufman is back with the stop-motion film Anomalisa. In similar Kaufman fashion, the protagonist is a middle-aged cynic crippled by the mundanity of modern life, only to come to life when a stranger opens his eyes and ears to the beauty of human connection, if only for a moment. Anomalisa is a transfixing, thoughtful, and touching film that goes deep into the viewer’s psyche and stirs up emotions of introspective thought. 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