Year-End Lists

Sight & Sound Poll: Top 35 Films of 2015 (a poll of 168 critics, published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

1. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
2. Carol
   Todd Haynes
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
4. Arabian Nights
   Miguel Gomes
5. Cemetery of Splendor
   Apichatpong Weerasethakul
6. No Home Movie
   Chantal Akerman
7. 45 Years
   Andrew Haigh
8. Son of Saul
   László Nemes
8. Amy
   Asif Kapadia
8. Inherent Vice
   Paul Thomas Anderson
8. Anomalisa
   Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
8. It Follows
   David Robert Mitchell
13. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
14. Girlhood
    Céline Sciamma
14. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
14. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
14. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
14. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
    Jafar Panahi
19. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
19. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
21. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
21. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
21. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
21. The Forbidden Room
    Guy Maddin
21. My Golden Days
    Arnaud Desplechin
26. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
26. Blackhat
    Michael Mann
26. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
26. Evolution
    Lucile Hadzihalilovic
26. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
26. Heart of a Dog
    Laurie Anderson
26. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
26. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
26. Room
    Lenny Abrahamson
26. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies