Year-End Lists

IndieWire: 66 Best Films of 2015, as voted by Indiewire’s writers and staffers, not to be confused with the Indiewire poll of hundreds of critics

[see also 2010s]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
2. Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
3. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
4. Carol — Todd Haynes
5. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
6. Inside Out — Pete Docter
7. Room — Lenny Abrahamson
8. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
9. Brooklyn — John Crowley
10. Son of Saul — László Nemes
11. Ex Machina — Alex Garland
12. Steve Jobs — Danny Boyle
13. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
14. The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
15. The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
16. Tangerine — Sean Baker
17. Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
18. The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
19. Creed — Ryan Coogler
20. The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller

Just missing out on the top 20

• It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
• Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
• Crimson Peak — Guillermo del Toro
• Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
• Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
• Wild Tales — Damián Szifrón
• Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Vinterberg
• A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson

Clocking up a vote or two

• Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg
• Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
• The Good Dinosaur — Peter Sohn
• The Walk — Robert Zemeckis
• Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
• James White — Josh Mond
• Victoria — Sebastian Schipper
• Youth — Paolo Sorrentino
• Tokyo Tribe — Sion Sono
• The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
• Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
• Queen of Earth — Alex Ross Perry
• Entertainment — Rick Alverson
• Tu Dors Nicole — Stéphane Lafleur
• Bone Tomahawk — S. Craig Zahler
• Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
• What We Do in the Shadows — Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
• Slow West — John Maclean
• Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
• Ballet 422 — Jody Lee Lipes
• Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
• Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
• The Pearl Button — Patricio Guzmán
• Cartel Land — Matthew Heineman
• Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
• Listen to Me Marlon — Stevan Riley
• Dope — Rick Famuyiwa
• The Night Before — Jonathan Levine
• Phoenix — Christian Petzold
• Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
• The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
• Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
• Mississippi Grind — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
• Breathe — Mélanie Laurent
• While We’re Young — Noah Baumbach
• Cobain: Montage of Heck — Brett Morgen
• The Martian — Ridley Scott
• White God — Kornél Mundruczó