Year-End Lists

Ann Hornaday: 29 Best Films of 2015, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016]

1. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
2. Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad
3. Brooklyn — John Crowley
4. Carol — Todd Haynes
5. Ex Machina — Alex Garland
6. Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
7. Son of Saul — László Nemes
8. Creed — Ryan Coogler
9. Inside Out — Pete Docter
10. The Martian — Ridley Scott

Could easily have ended up in the top ten

• Amy — Asif Kapadia
• Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
• The Babadook — Jennifer Kent
• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Stanley Nelson
• Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg
• The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
• The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
• Joy — David O. Russell
• Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
• Meru — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
• Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
• Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• Room — Lenny Abrahamson
• Seymour: An Introduction — Ethan Hawke
• Straight Outta Compton — F. Gary Gray
• Tangerine — Sean Baker
• Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
• While We’re Young — Noah Baumbach
• The Wolfpack — Crystal Moselle