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10 Reasons To Believe The Revenant Could Be The Best Film Of 2015

With 2015 now into its fourth quarter, it might seem foolish to single out one upcoming film and predict that it's the one to come out on top this year. After all, now is the time when we start heading into awards season, and all the movies that have been saved for this particular stretch will be released in the coming weeks and months, as they vie for entry into next year's Oscars.

2)Iñárritu Is On A Roll

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Iñárritu has – from Amores Perros to 21 Grams to Babel to Biutiful – never really made himself a bad film. There are some who argue Babel isn’t up to much, and others who dismiss Biutiful as mere poverty porn, but they’re wrong. And besides, you could discount everything else Inarritu has made, because all you need as evidence of what a great filmmaker he is is his last movie: the pretty much universally-adored Birdman.

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It’s a movie which provesIñárritu is currently on an upswing, having taken his first real steps into Hollywood moviemaking and found he’s a better fit there even than in international cinema. Birdman saw Iñárritu reinvent himself, and he looks set to do the same again with a type of movie he’s never tried before: an action-orientated thriller-survival flick.