Year-End Lists

M. Leary: 24 Favorite Films of 2015 (as posted to Medium)

1. Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
2. Horse Money — Pedro Costa
3. Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
4. Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
5. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
6. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
7. Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
8. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
9. Man from Reno — Dave Boyle
10. Mississippi Grind — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden

Other films that could have just as easily made it on this list

• About Elly — Asghar Farhadi
• The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Black Coal, Thin Ice — Diao Yinan
• The Kindergarten Teacher — Nadav Lapid
• Listen to Me Marlon — Stevan Riley
• Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad
• The Mend — John Magary
• Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• Paddington — Paul King
• Queen of Earth — Alex Ross Perry
• Results — Andrew Bujalski
• Something, Anything — Paul Harrill
• Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
• World of Tomorrow — Don Hertzfeldt