Matt Singer: The Best Movies of 2015, as published by ScreenCrush
[see also 2020, 2010s, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Brooklyn — John Crowley
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Victoria — Sebastian Schipper
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- Creed — Ryan Coogler
- The Danish Girl — Tom Hooper
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- Ex Machina — Alex Garland
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief — Alex Gibney
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Room — Lenny Abrahamson
- Son of Saul — László Nemes
- Tangerine — Sean Baker