Matt Prigge: 30 Best Films of 2015, as published by Metro
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- The Mend — John Magary
- World of Tomorrow — Don Hertzfeldt
- Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
- Saint Laurent — Bertrand Bonello
- Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
- Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
- Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- Tangerine — Sean Baker
- In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
- The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
- Love — Gaspar Noé
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- Cobain: Montage of Heck — Brett Morgen
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- Results — Andrew Bujalski
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
- Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven
- Buzzard — Joel Potrykus
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
- Creed — Ryan Coogler
- Blackhat — Michael Mann
- Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter — David Zellner
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- Inside Out — Pete Docter