Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2015
[see also 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
- Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
- Horse Money — Pedro Costa
- Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
- Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
- Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
- Blackhat — Michael Mann
- The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
- Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
- Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
- Queen of Earth — Alex Ross Perry
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
- The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Creed — Ryan Coogler
- Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
- Son of Saul — László Nemes
- Of Men and War — Laurent Bécue-Renard
- Eastern Boys — Robin Campillo
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- About Elly — Asghar Farhadi
- Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
- Salvation Army — Abdellah Taïa
- The Kindergarten Teacher — Nadav Lapid
- Tangerine — Sean Baker
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Welcome to New York — Abel Ferrara
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
- Girlhood — Céline Sciamma
- Buzzard — Joel Potrykus
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- The Pearl Button — Patricio Guzmán
- Of Horses and Men — Benedikt Erlingsson
- Madam Phung’s Last Journey — Nguyễn Thị Thấm
- We Come as Friends — Hubert Sauper
- Entertainment — Rick Alverson
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
- The Fool — Yuri Bykov
- Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
- La Última Película — Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Gangs of Wasseypur — Anurag Kashyap
- Office — Johnnie To
- Coming Home — Zhang Yimou
- The Princess of France — Matías Piñeiro