M. Leary: 24 Favorite Films of 2015 (as posted to Medium)
- Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
- Horse Money — Pedro Costa
- Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
- Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- Man from Reno — Dave Boyle
- Mississippi Grind — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
- 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