Lisa Schwarzbaum: 20 Favorite Movies of 2015 (as posted on Twitter in this series of tweets: 1, 2, 3, 4)
[see also 2012]
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
- Spy — Paul Feig
- 99 Homes — Ramin Bahrani
- Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
- Son of Saul — László Nemes
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
- Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- Victoria — Sebastian Schipper
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
- Amy — Asif Kapadia
- ’71 — Yann Demange
- Room — Lenny Abrahamson
- Buzzard — Joel Potrykus