Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Movies of 2015

[see also 2010s, 2018, 2017]

1. Chi-Raq — Spike Lee
2. Cartel Land — Matthew Heineman
3. The Tribe — Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
4. White God — Kornél Mundruczó
5. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem — Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
6. The End of the Tour — James Ponsoldt
7. Anomalisa — Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
8. Time Out of Mind — Oren Moverman
9. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller
10. Mistress America — Noah Baumbach
11. Experimenter — Michael Almereyda
12. Eden — Mia Hansen-Løve
13. Phoenix — Christian Petzold
14. Heart of a Dog — Laurie Anderson
15. Iris — Albert Maysles
16. The Hateful Eight — Quentin Tarantino
17. Love & Mercy — Bill Pohlad
18. Janis: Little Girl Blue — Amy Berg
19. The Assassin — Hou Hsiao-Hsien
20. Mississippi Grind — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
21. Seymour: An Introduction — Ethan Hawke
22. Son of Saul — László Nemes
23. Inside Out — Pete Docter
24. Western — Bill Ross
25. Hard to Be a God — Aleksey German
26. James White — Josh Mond
27. Spotlight — Tom McCarthy
28. Ex Machina — Alex Garland
29. Amy — Asif Kapadia
30. Star Wars: The Force Awakens — JJ Abrams
31. I’ll See You in My Dreams — Brett Haley
32. Beasts of No Nation — Cary Joji Fukunaga
33. Room — Lenny Abrahamson
34. The Mend — John Magary
35. Brand: A Second Coming — Ondi Timoner
36. It Follows — David Robert Mitchell
37. While We’re Young — Noah Baumbach
38. (T)ERROR — Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
39. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation — Christopher McQuarrie
40. The Big Short — Adam McKay
41. Listen to Me Marlon — Stevan Riley
42. Timbuktu — Abderrahmane Sissako
43. ’71 — Yann Demange
44. Trainwreck — Judd Apatow
45. Sicario — Denis Villeneuve
46. The Revenant — Alejandro González Iñárritu
47. The New Girlfriend — François Ozon
48. Results — Andrew Bujalski
49. Dope — Rick Famuyiwa
50. Tangerine — Sean Baker