Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2015 (as published in The Village Voice, comprised of votes from over 125 critics)
[see also 2017, 2016, 2012, 2011]
- Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
- Carol — Todd Haynes
- Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
- Phoenix — Christian Petzold
- Tangerine — Sean Baker
- Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
- Inside Out — Pete Docter
- Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
- Brooklyn — John Crowley
- The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
- Ex Machina — Alex Garland
- The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
- Creed — Ryan Coogler
- Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
- Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
- Son of Saul — László Nemes
- Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
- Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
- Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
- Room — Lenny Abrahamson
- The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
- 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
- The Martian — Ridley Scott
- Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
- The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
- In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
- The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
- Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
- Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
- Amy — Asif Kapadia
- Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
- The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
- A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
- Horse Money — Pedro Costa
- Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg
- Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
- The Big Short — Adam McKay
- The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
- Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
- The Hateful Eight — Quentin Tarantino
- Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad
- It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
- Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
- About Elly — Asghar Farhadi
- Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
- Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
- The Mend — John Magary
- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
- The Wonders — Alice Rohrwacher