20 Best & Worst Movies From 2015 Oscar Nominees

17. Mark Ruffalo

Best: The Normal Heart (2014) HBO don't often do bad films, and this incendiary, astonishing drama was like a heart-wrenching hand-grenade, lurking beneath the surface with painful inevitability: the perfect mirror of the disease it portrayed. Ruffalo's performance - a bright point in a sea of bright points - was haunting and hopeless and the claustrophobic feel of the film was only eased by devastation. So not one to watch carelessly. Worst: 54 (1998) Somehow, the film has tricked its way into the cult column, and while there's some pleasure to be had in Mike Myers' performance, it's not a good memory for everyone else involved.
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