Year-End Lists

M. Leary: 24 Favorite Films of 2015 (as posted to Medium)

1. Li’l Quinquin
   Bruno Dumont
2. Horse Money
   Pedro Costa
3. Experimenter
   Michael Almereyda
4. Hard to Be a God
   Aleksey German
5. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
   Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
7. Jauja
   Lisandro Alonso
8. Phoenix
   Christian Petzold
9. Man from Reno
   Dave Boyle
10. Mississippi Grind
    Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden

Other films that could have just as easily made it on this list

• About Elly
  Asghar Farhadi
• The Assassin
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
• Black Coal, Thin Ice
  Diao Yinan
• The Kindergarten Teacher
  Nadav Lapid
• Listen to Me Marlon
  Stevan Riley
• Love & Mercy
  Bill Pohlad
• The Mend
  John Magary
• Mustang
  Deniz Gamze Ergüven
• Paddington
  Paul King
• Queen of Earth
  Alex Ross Perry
• Results
  Andrew Bujalski
• Something, Anything
  Paul Harrill
• Timbuktu
  Abderrahmane Sissako
• World of Tomorrow
  Don Hertzfeldt