In a year marked by some very justifiable outrages-the Confederate flag still hanging on public grounds, university buildings named after slave masters-the lamest controversies were the reactionary bellowing of a small, vocal fringe to the diversity in Star Wars and the feminist agenda of this Fury Road. We’re so used to seeing damsels in distress that it’s still a revolutionary act in this patriarchy-snubbing epic to see the most important and decisive characters be all women (hail Charlize Theron)—and the man reduced to a nearly wordless primate (Tom Hardy). Visionary director George Miller returns to the post-apocalypse land of the cuckoo after thirty years and the result is one of the craziest and most exhilarating actions movies ever made. So much to take in, but in particular the ferocious sand storm and its descent into a desert Hades blew my mind. Godspeed with the revamped Mad Max sequels.
Mad Max: Fury Road