Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2015

[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
2. In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
3. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
4. Horse Money — Pedro Costa
5. Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
6. Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
7. Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
8. Blackhat — Michael Mann
9. The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
10. Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
11. Li’l Quinquin — Bruno Dumont
12. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
13. Queen of Earth — Alex Ross Perry
14. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
15. Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
16. Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
17. The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
18. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
19. Carol — Todd Haynes
20. Creed — Ryan Coogler
21. Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
22. Son of Saul — László Nemes
23. Of Men and War — Laurent Bécue-Renard
24. Eastern Boys — Robin Campillo
25. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh

Just missed making it into the top 25

26. About Elly — Asghar Farhadi
27. Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
28. Salvation Army — Abdellah Taïa
29. The Kindergarten Teacher — Nadav Lapid
30. Tangerine — Sean Baker
31. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
32. Welcome to New York — Abel Ferrara
33. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
34. Girlhood — Céline Sciamma
35. Buzzard — Joel Potrykus
36. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
37. The Pearl Button — Patricio Guzmán
38. Of Horses and Men — Benedikt Erlingsson
39. Madam Phung’s Last Journey — Nguyễn Thị Thấm
40. We Come as Friends — Hubert Sauper
41. Entertainment — Rick Alverson
42. The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
43. The Fool — Yuri Bykov
44. Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
45. La Última Película — Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
46. Inside Out — Pete Docter
47. Gangs of Wasseypur — Anurag Kashyap
48. Office — Johnnie To
49. Coming Home — Zhang Yimou
50. The Princess of France — Matías Piñeiro