11. Mad Max: Fury Road
Without a doubt one of the best action movies of this year. Its filmmaking is fearless and its agenda surprisingly progressive, and it’s also a love letter to a kind of action cinema that we’d all but forgotten in these days of cartoonishness, weightless shiny robots and CG gigantism: Miller uses the wide open spaces and simplistic chase storyline to stage action sequences that are grounded in their geography and sightlines, but crazy over the top in effect. With Charlize Theron on iconic, Ripley-esque form and Tom Hardy generously stepping back, then definitively stepping forward when needed, the film more than anything is still a a truly visionary piece of action filmmaking from Miller.