Year-End Lists

Manohla Dargis: 37 Best Movies of 2015, as published by The New York Times

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1. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler [retrospective]
   Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler
3. Bridge of Spies
   Steven Spielberg
4. Carol
   Todd Haynes
5. In Jackson Heights
   Frederick Wiseman
6. The Martian
   Ridley Scott
7. The Kindergarten Teacher
   Nadav Lapid
8. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
   Marielle Heller
9. The Big Short
   Adam McKay
10. Sixty Six
    Lewis Klahr

Another 26 Favorites

• ’71
  Yann Demange
• Amy
  Asif Kapadia
• Anomalisa
  Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
• Blackhat
  Michael Mann
• Chi-Raq
  Spike Lee
• Ex Machina
  Alex Garland
• Experimenter
  Michael Almereyda
• Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
  Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
• The Good Dinosaur
  Peter Sohn
• The Great Man
  Sarah Leonor
• Inside Out
  Pete Docter
• Joy
  David O. Russell
• Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles
  Rick Prelinger
• Magic Mike XXL
  Gregory Jacobs
• Office
  Johnnie To
• Results
  Andrew Bujalski
• The Revenant
  Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Seymour: An Introduction
  Ethan Hawke
• Shaun the Sheep Movie
  Mark Burton and Richard Starzak
• Spy
  Paul Feig
• Straight Outta Compton
  F. Gary Gray
• Tangerine
  Sean Baker
• Timbuktu
  Abderrahmane Sissako
• Trainwreck
  Judd Apatow
• White God
  Kornél Mundruczó
• The Wolfpack
  Crystal Moselle