The A.V. Club: 20 Best Films of 2015
[see also 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
- The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Brooklyn — John Crowley
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg
- Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- Crimson Peak — Guillermo del Toro
- The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
- Approaching the Elephant — Amanda Wilder
- The Martian — Ridley Scott
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- James White — Josh Mond