Year-End Lists

IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2015 (as voted by 204 critics)

NOTE: Although the scores indicate a tie for the 49th film, IndieWire presents them in this order, with no ties.

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1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. Carol
   Todd Haynes
3. Spotlight
   Tom McCarthy
4. Inside Out
   Pete Docter
5. Phoenix
   Christian Petzold
6. Brooklyn
   John Crowley
7. Anomalisa
   Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
8. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
9. The Look of Silence
   Joshua Oppenheimer
10. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
11. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
12. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
13. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
14. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
15. Room
    Lenny Abrahamson
16. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
17. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
18. Arabian Nights
    Miguel Gomes
19. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
20. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
21. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
    Jafar Panahi
22. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
23. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
24. The Tribe
    Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
25. Sicario
    Denis Villeneuve
26. The Forbidden Room
    Guy Maddin
27. In Jackson Heights
    Frederick Wiseman
28. The Martian
    Ridley Scott
29. Mistress America
    Noah Baumbach
30. Steve Jobs
    Danny Boyle
31. The Mend
    John Magary
32. Jauja
    Lisandro Alonso
33. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
34. Chi-Raq
    Spike Lee
35. Heart of a Dog
    Laurie Anderson
36. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
37. Magic Mike XXL
    Gregory Jacobs
38. Amy
    Asif Kapadia
39. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Roy Andersson
40. The Big Short
    Adam McKay
41. Eden
    Mia Hansen-Løve
42. Experimenter
    Michael Almereyda
43. About Elly
    Asghar Farhadi
44. The Revenant
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
45. The End of the Tour
    James Ponsoldt
46. Bridge of Spies
    Steven Spielberg
47. Queen of Earth
    Alex Ross Perry
48. Li’l Quinquin
    Bruno Dumont
49. Mustang
    Deniz Gamze Ergüven
50. Love & Mercy
    Bill Pohlad