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Village Voice: Top 50 Films of 2015

16 December 2015

Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2015 (as published in The Village Voice, comprised of votes from over 125 critics)

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2014 • 2013 • 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

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