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2015 Movies

Metro: Matt Prigge: 30 Best Films of 2015

18 December 2015

Matt Prigge: 30 Best Films of 2015, as published by Metro

[see also 2016 • 2012 • 2011]

  1. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  2. The Mend
    John Magary
  3. World of Tomorrow
    Don Hertzfeldt
  4. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
  5. Saint Laurent
    Bertrand Bonello
  6. Eden
    Mia Hansen-Løve
  7. Experimenter
    Michael Almereyda
  8. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
  9. Carol
    Todd Haynes
  10. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  11. Chi-Raq
    Spike Lee
  12. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
  13. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
  14. In Jackson Heights
    Frederick Wiseman
  15. The Forbidden Room
    Guy Maddin
  16. Love
    Gaspar Noé
  17. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
  18. Cobain: Montage of Heck
    Brett Morgen
  19. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
  20. Results
    Andrew Bujalski
  21. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
  22. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
  23. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
  24. Buzzard
    Joel Potrykus
  25. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Roy Andersson
  26. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
  27. Blackhat
    Michael Mann
  28. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
    David Zellner
  29. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
  30. Inside Out
    Pete Docter

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