Year-End Lists

Scott Tobias: Top 30 films of 2015. The top ten were submitted to the Village Voice poll and the Variety survey, and he updated and expanded the list on Letterboxd.

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1. The Look of Silence
   Joshua Oppenheimer
2. Phoenix
   Christian Petzold
3. Carol
   Todd Haynes
4. Brooklyn
   John Crowley
5. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
6. Inside Out
   Pete Docter
7. Heaven Knows What
   Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
8. It Follows
   David Robert Mitchell
9. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
10. The Hateful Eight
    Quentin Tarantino
11. Western
    Bill Ross
12. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
13. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
14. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
15. Buzzard
    Joel Potrykus
16. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
17. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
18. Sicario
    Denis Villeneuve
19. Bridge of Spies
    Steven Spielberg
20. Approaching the Elephant
    Amanda Wilder
21. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
22. James White
    Josh Mond
23. (T)ERROR
    Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
24. Crimson Peak
    Guillermo del Toro
25. Cartel Land
    Matthew Heineman
26. Democrats
    Camilla Nielsson
27. The Big Short
    Adam McKay
28. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
29. The Tribe
    Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
30. Spotlight
    Tom McCarthy