Best Movie of 2015

Rating: 10/10 (30 October 2016)

As brilliant as Sicario is and holding my #1 spot for most of the year, The Big Short is better and one of the great farces of all time. A dream cast at the helm that balances four groups of people effortlessly struggling to not let the USA housing market disaster of the late 00's destroys their lives and the economy, there is little they can do to stop the coming onslaught of stock market crashes and loan underpayments. The brilliance of the move lies in its approach, which balances comedy with a documentary style seriousness and visionary cut-n-paste editing. By doing these things in a way that even everyone can understand, director Adam McKaye reinvents the landscape of how movies are made. What The Big Short does best is show off a style of invention that combines many old troupes to make something completely new, making it a milestone in movie history akin to Citizen Kane, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Godfather, etc. The movie could have been about anything, the reason it succeeds is because every single aspect of it is top notch – acting, screenplay, cinematography, accessibility. It is simply the most profound movie of the year in story and execution and I doubt we will get something else like it for a very long time.