Top 10

Whiplash is One Room With A View’s best film of 2015, beating all other competition since its UK release date of January 16th. That’s all the more impressive when you think how tough the competition has...

Mad Max: Fury Road is undoubtedly one of the best action blockbusters of 2015. It’s also one of the most progressive, subversive and openly political films to reach such a mass audience in recent memory. It...

There has been an awakening. Have you felt it? April, 1997. Thurrock, South East England. The carpark outside a Vue cinema. A seven year-old boy and his father stumble out of the theatre's exit into the...

If Pixar films have taught us one thing, it's that everything we love will one day come to an end. We will forget our childhood toys. Our loved ones will die and leave us alone in the world. Eventually, we all...

Carol is a glimpse of a faded memory; a divine reverie conjured from the depths of your gut by a familiar smell, a lilting melody, or a pensive silence. What other films may struggle to say with extended...

"Wow. You know... What has to happen in a person's life to become a critic anyway? What are you writing? Another review? Is that any good? Is it? Did you even see it?" Michael Keaton is Riggan Thompson, a...

“What happens to me if I fail your test?” What indeed. The year’s most interesting film? You’d be hard pressed to find a rival with the same scientific clout as this, Alex Garland’s directorial...

If you aren’t a fan of having sex in public places then seeing The Martian was probably the most fun you could have had in a cinema in 2015. The Martian is the story of the eponymous Mark Watney (Matt...

"If I came to you like this during the military dictatorship - what would you have done to me?" "You can't imagine what would have happened." I'll start by pointing out something fortuitous: the focus of...

Back in the mid noughties, Amy Winehouse was more than just a name. Through a meteoric rise to fame, followed by a descent into drugs, she became the punchline to your jokes. A shorthand description of someone...

It's here! The One Room With A View Top 20 films of 2015 has landed. It's been an extraordinary year of cinema, and this was one of the closest years we've seen in the vote. With positions constantly changing,...

Alfred Hitchock, regarded by many as the greatest director of all time, once said he thought “all actors should be treated like cattle”, which gives you a good idea as to why the auteur and the talent...

The decades-long Cold War is, in many ways, one of the most literary of all international conflicts - which is why, perhaps, it hasn't found as perennial a home on screen as some of its louder cousins. That...

With the final chapter of everyone’s favourite dystopian teen franchise, The Hunger Games (what else?), landing in cinemas this week, you may need some cinematic balm for the gaping hole it’s about to...

"Matilda said 'Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it's unbelievable..."' The 23rd of November...