The Danish Girl

I was really unhappy that this movie has only received the equivalent to a C rating. Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander gave incredible performances. I personally think Alicia Vikander gave a more diverse performance but Eddie Redmayne's performance was an incredible one in the way that he portrayed two people who, in a way, had two completely different personalities. I don't know how accurate this movie is when it comes to Lili Elbe's relationships, but since it is based off a novel 'm assuming most of the main conflict is accurate.

Trumbo

Trumbo does a great job showing the injustice of the blacklist throughout the late 40's and the 50's. I've always been interested in the time period because, in the way I have always looked at it, the persecution of communists seemed so incredibly unconstitutional, so much so that I always thought I was missing a part of the story; luckily (or unluckily), I wasn't missing anything and my assumptions about the status of the blacklist are actually quite true. Through Dalton Trumbo's story, audiences can see the greater implications of the blacklist and the persecution of communists in America at the time of the Cold War.

The End of the Tour

Everyone's heard of the self-destructive creative archetype and how that story has been told a million times before in a million ways, but none of it really seems that different. The End of the Tour is another one of those stories, but somehow it did feel different, and maybe it wasn't and I'm placebo-effecting myself because I saw it in a small county theater that shows two movies a week that almost no one has heard of (the Google description says it focuses on "independent, art, and foreign films"), but even if it wasn't any different from the other movies that tell similar stories I still thought The End of the Tour was a great movie and a compelling story.