Year-End Lists

Paste Magazine: 50 Best Movies of 2015

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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