Awards

Filmwerk Reviewer’s Best of 2015

23rd Dec 2015

Once again we are at an end of the year: A year that saw the comic book movie start to faulter with the likes of Age of Ultron and Fantastic Four not exactly hitting it big with critics and audiences. Universal seemed to run off with the lions share of money with a string of hits including two billion dollar breakthroughs in Fast and Furious 7 and Jurassic World. The Spy movie did very well for itself starting with Kingsmen, and the pushing on through the year with The Man From UNCLE, Spy, the return of James Bond in SPECTRE and finally Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. but even then some of these had their issues.

Every genre seemed to have their own surprise hit – The action genre added John Wick, The horror genre marked It Follows. But truly this must be a return of the intelligent Science Fiction movie – Ex Machina, Predestination, The Martian, Mad Max Fury Road and then that little history set far away and long ago had a sizeable hit at the end of the year.

But it also proved to be a year where even Netflix couldn’t save Adam Sandler’s quality of film!

Here then is what the team thought of 2015 with our overall top 10 at the bottom:

Ryan Cole

It Follows
Ex Machina
Straight Outta Compton
Mad Max: Fury Road
Containment
Stung
Ant-Man
Hector
Birdman
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Chris Droney

Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
John Wick
Whiplash
The Gift
Kingsman
Birdman
SPECTRE
Inside Out
Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Steven Hurst

Mad Max: Fury Road
Whiplash
John Wick
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Steve Jobs
Predestination
Birdman
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Ex Machina
The Gift

Laura Johnson

Inside Out
Avengers: Ultron
Ant-Man
Entourage
Montage of Heck

Sean Kennedy

Mad Max: Fury Road
Predestination
Ex Machina
Spectre
The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Kingsman
Birdman
It Follows
John Wick

Anne Korn

Mr Holmes
Accidental love
Love and Mercy
Star Wars
Ant-man
The Man From UNCLE
Inside Out
Amy
Chappie
Avengers: Age of Ultron

Shane Meekings

Fast & Furious 7
Star Wars: Then Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
We Are Still Here
Ant-Man

Benjamin Pegley

Star Wars: Then Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Ex Machina
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
Spectre
John Wick
Predestination
Kingsman
Avengers: Age Of Ultron