This year’s installment of David Ehrlich’s always enjoyable video countdown: 25 Best Films of 2015.
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- World of Tomorrow — Don Hertzfeldt
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
- Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter — David Zellner
- Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
- Tokyo Tribe — Sion Sono
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Listen to Me Marlon — Stevan Riley
- Black Coal, Thin Ice — Diao Yinan
- Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- The Hateful Eight — Quentin Tarantino
- The Mend — John Magary
- James White — Josh Mond
- The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
- Junun — Paul Thomas Anderson
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Tangerine — Sean Baker
- Girlhood — Céline Sciamma