Christopher Orr: 22 Best Movies of 2015, as published by The Atlantic
[see also 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014]
- Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
- The Martian — Ridley Scott
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- The Big Short — Adam McKay
- Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens — JJ Abrams
- Steve Jobs — Danny Boyle
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Room — Lenny Abrahamson
- Amy — Asif Kapadia
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Black Mass — Scott Cooper
- Cinderella — Kenneth Branagh
- Ex Machina — Alex Garland
- Joy — David O. Russell
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Trainwreck — Judd Apatow
- Wild Tales — Damián Szifrón