Ranking November 2015’s Movies From Worst To Best

1. Spotlight

RottenTomatoes Score: 97% (9/10) Box Office: The $20 million ensemble drama has benefited from effusive critical acclaim and Oscar buzz, ensuring a successful platform rollout, grossing $12.3 million to date before recouping its budget through December. Verdict: The best-reviewed of all the serious Oscar contenders released so far, Spotlight documents the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of paedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church, and even more disturbingly, the extent to which the Church attempted to cover them up. With an incredible ensemble cast including Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins and Paul Guilfoyle, Spotlight seems almost certain to win the SAG award (though Tarantino's The Hateful Eight could play the spoiler here), and with its timely, Earth-shatteringly devastating content, is going to be up for all the major Academy Awards. Redeeming himself for his rancid Adam Sandler vehicle The Cobbler, director Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent, Win Win) again proves why he's one of the finest American writer-directors working today, tackling a difficult subject with sensitivity but also probing insight. What did you think of November's movies? Shout them out in the comments!