A.A. Dowd: 15 Best Films of 2015, as published by The A.V. Club
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014]
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Approaching the Elephant — Amanda Wilder
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
- Son of Saul — László Nemes
- About Elly — Asghar Farhadi
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
- Tu Dors Nicole — Stéphane Lafleur