Year-End Lists

J.R. Jones: Favorite Films of 2015, as published by The Chicago Reader

1. White God
   Kornél Mundruczó
2. 99 Homes
   Ramin Bahrani
3. Spotlight
   Tom McCarthy
4. Maps to the Stars
   David Cronenberg
5. Queen and Country
   John Boorman
6. Court
   Chaitanya Tamhane
7. Mommy
   Xavier Dolan
8. About Elly
   Asghar Farhadi
9. Youth
   Paolo Sorrentino
10. Results
    Andrew Bujalski

Runners-up

11. The Assassin
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
12. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
13. The Forbidden Room
    Guy Maddin
14. Best of Enemies
    Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon
15. A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)
    Les Blank
16. Room
    Lenny Abrahamson
17. Bridge of Spies
    Steven Spielberg
18. What We Do in the Shadows
    Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
19. Black Mass
    Scott Cooper
20. A Most Violent Year
    J.C. Chandor