David Edelstein: 30 Best Movies of 2015, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Room — Lenny Abrahamson
- The Big Short — Adam McKay
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Listen to Me Marlon — Stevan Riley
- Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
- Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
- Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
- Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
- White God — Kornél Mundruczó
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief — Alex Gibney
- Meru — Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
- 99 Homes — Ramin Bahrani
- Creed — Ryan Coogler
- Tangerine — Sean Baker
- The Wolfpack — Crystal Moselle
- In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
- Janis: Little Girl Blue — Amy Berg
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- I’ll See You in My Dreams — Brett Haley
- Shaun the Sheep Movie — Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
- James White — Josh Mond
- Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
- The Mend — John Magary
- The Martian — Ridley Scott
- Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — Guy Ritchie
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell