From ‘Sicario’ to ‘Batman v Superman,’ with two Kurt Russell Westerns!
FromJoytoStraight Outta ComptontoSpectre, check out our ranking of the art, ahead.
BEST: 25.
The perfect tantalizing shot for this tantalizingly searching documentary.
BEST: 24.
How do you sell a superhero who sounds hilariously non-threatening?
You turn the bug into a feature.
(So to speak.)
BEST: 23.
The Martian
Beloved movie star.
The easy victories are the hardest to come by.
BEST: 22.
BEST: 21.
By the Sea
Big stars?
Sure, but more importantly: How about those hats!
BEST: 20.
Captain America: Civil War
Another adventurous poster from Marvel, albeit with more blunt-force power.
BEST: 19.
A flying money mountain!
When you’re selling a remake nobody wanted, best to go as big and goofy as possible.
BEST: 18.
Mad Max: Fury Road
WITNESS.
BEST: 17.
The Rock the Kasbah
As a movie,Rock the Kasbahis a snooze.
BEST: 16.
Pitch Perfect 2
Nothing can hold back the exultant power of the Barden Bellas.
(Not even some odd skin-smoothing photoshop.)
BEST: 15.
Steve Jobs
As subtle as the movie isn’t.
BEST: 14.
BEST: 13.
Straight Outta Compton
It’s theAvengers, except real and with better music.
BEST: 12.
BEST: 11.
The Hateful Eight
The fine art of the illustrated poster has mostly faded into history.
Thank goodness for history buff Quentin Tarantino, whose newest Western gets a groovily subdued, blood-on-the-snowscape poster.
BEST: 10.
Yes, it still looks pretty nifty.
BEST: 9.
The Night Before
Ugly Christmas Sweaters, a stained-glass-window aesthetic,andan embeddedChristmas Carolreference in the tagline?
Well done, boys.
BEST: 8.
Mission: ImpossibleRogue Nation
Big star.
Hanging off a plane.
Are there planes inJoy?
I don’t think so.
BEST: 7.
Trainwreck
Witness the moment when Amy Schumer went global.
BEST: 6.
The Visit
Horror films often bring out the best in designers, encouraging clever and subtle imagery.
That’s especially true of this funny-weird quilt design.
And how nice: They mentioned M. Night Shyamalan’s name!
BEST: 5.
Bone Tomahawk
S. Craig Zahler’s rollicking Western adventure is part throwback rescue odyssey, part horror freakout.
BEST: 4.
Furious Seven
Crying now.
BEST: 3.
BEST: 1.
WORST: 10.
The Intern
Are they walking?
Is that a living room or an office?
Is “smugcore” an adjective?
WORST: 9.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Guy Ritchie’s spy romp was a stealth delight buried in August.
This poster helped do the burying: A colorlessly bland cast shot with the year’s least helpful tagline.
WORST: 8.
Pan
Dear Academy Voters: I was inCarolthis year.
I’ve never heard ofPan.
Love, Rooney Mara.
WORST: 7.
But this is no way to sell a confusing sequel-spinoff.
People will think Thor lost his hammer!
WORST: 6.
Spectre
The problems with the latest James Bond movie started early, with this confusingly opaque one-sheet.
The bullet hole crack kinda forms an octopus, see?
Y’know, like the insignia for SPECTRE, that group from those 40-year-old Bond movies!
You remember SPECTRE, right?
Right????
WORST: 5.
WORST: 4.
WORST: 3.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Chip
How long do Chipmunks live for?
Not long, right?
WORST: 2.
Entourage
TURTLE BRO WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR EYES BRO?
WORST: 1.
