Year-End Lists

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]

1. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
2. Carol — Todd Haynes
3. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
4. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
5. Tangerine — Sean Baker
6. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
7. Inside Out — Pete Docter
8. Clouds of Sils Maria — Olivier Assayas
9. Brooklyn — John Crowley
10. The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
11. Ex Machina — Alex Garland
12. The Look of Silence — Joshua Oppenheimer
13. Creed — Ryan Coogler
14. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
15. Magic Mike XXL — Gregory Jacobs
16. The Diary of a Teenage Girl — Marielle Heller
17. Son of Saul — László Nemes
18. Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
19. Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
20. Heaven Knows What — Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
21. Room — Lenny Abrahamson
22. The Duke of Burgundy — Peter Strickland
23. 45 Years — Andrew Haigh
24. The Martian — Ridley Scott
25. Jauja — Lisandro Alonso
26. The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
27. In Jackson Heights — Frederick Wiseman
28. The Forbidden Room — Guy Maddin
29. Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
30. Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
31. Amy — Asif Kapadia
32. Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
33. The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
34. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence — Roy Andersson
35. Horse Money — Pedro Costa
36. Bridge of Spies — Steven Spielberg
37. Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
38. The Big Short — Adam McKay
39. The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
40. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi — Jafar Panahi
41. The Hateful Eight — Quentin Tarantino
42. Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad
43. It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
44. Arabian Nights — Miguel Gomes
45. About Elly — Asghar Farhadi
46. Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
47. Maps to the Stars — David Cronenberg
48. The Mend — John Magary
49. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
50. The Wonders — Alice Rohrwacher

• Nick Schager: The Best Films of 2015