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Sam Woolf’s Top 10 Films Of 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road, Spotlight, and Carol are just a few of the movies singled out in critic Sam Woolf's list of the Top 10 Films of 2015.
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10) A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence

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The final entry in Roy Andersson’s trilogy “about being a human being,” A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence finds the Swedish director in familiar territory.

Pigeon’s two-dozen or so static tableauxs dedicated to life’s absurdity are of a feather with those seen in the “living” trilogy’s other entries. A debate is held over what should be done with a dead man’s last meal; a dance instructor lusts after her reluctant student; mopey salesmen struggle to hawk monster masks.

Andersson’s well-established comic sensibilities and Pigeon’s zany, but scattered vignettes make most of your first viewing feel like an extended victory lap, rather than a corker finale. It’s in the closing segments, though, that a more despairing view of Andersson’s works makes itself known, infusing not just Pigeon, but the entire “living” trilogy with an added dose of self-doubt to embitter your laughter.


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