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2015 Movies

Film Comment: 20 Best Films of 2015

15 December 2015

Film Comment: 20 Best Films of 2015 (as voted by “over 100 North American colleagues”)

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  1. Carol
    Todd Haynes
  2. The Assassin
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  3. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  4. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
  5. Arabian Nights
    Miguel Gomes
  6. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
  7. Spotlight
    Tom McCarthy
  8. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
  9. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
  10. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  11. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
  12. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
  13. In Jackson Heights
    Frederick Wiseman
  14. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
  15. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
  16. Jauja
    Lisandro Alonso
  17. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
  18. Brooklyn
    John Crowley
  19. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
  20. Bridge of Spies
    Steven Spielberg

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