Year-End Lists

The Guardian: 50 Best Films of 2015 (of US releases)

[see also 2017]

1. Son of Saul — László Nemes
2. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
3. The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
4. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
5. Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg
6. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
7. Carol — Todd Haynes
8. Amy — Asif Kapadia
9. Joy — David O. Russell
10. Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
11. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
12. While We’re Young — Noah Baumbach
13. Paddington — Paul King
14. Mommy — Xavier Dolan
15. Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
16. The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
17. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
18. Appropriate Behavior — Desiree Akhavan
19. The Salt of the Earth — Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
20. Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
21. The Wolfpack — Crystal Moselle
22. The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
23. Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
24. Slow West — John Maclean
25. White God — Kornél Mundruczó
26. It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
27. Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
28. The Gift — Joel Edgerton
29. The Seven Five — Tiller Russell
30. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
31. The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
32. The Nightmare — Rodney Ascher
33. Red Army — Gabe Polsky
34. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
35. Inside Out — Pete Docter
36. Room — Lenny Abrahamson
37. Creed — Ryan Coogler
38. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night — Ana Lily Amirpour
39. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
40. Black Mass — Scott Cooper
41. The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
42. Girlhood — Céline Sciamma
43. Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
44. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
45. Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
46. Macbeth — Justin Kurzel
47. Tangerine — Sean Baker
48. Youth — Paolo Sorrentino
49. Steve Jobs — Danny Boyle
50. Wild Tales — Damián Szifrón