Year-End Lists

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]

1. Room — Lenny Abrahamson
2. The Big Short — Adam McKay
3. Inside Out — Pete Docter
4. Listen to Me Marlon — Stevan Riley
5. Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
6. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
7. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
8. Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
9. Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
10. Chi-Raq — Spike Lee

Honorable Mentions

• 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