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Sight & Sound Poll: Top 35 Films of 2015

27 November 2015

The Assassin - Hou Hsiao-Hsien

Sight & Sound Poll: Top 35 Films of 2015 (a poll of 168 critics, published by Sight & Sound Magazine)

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  1. The Assassin
    Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  2. Carol
    Todd Haynes
  3. Mad Max: Fury Road
    George Miller
  4. Arabian Nights
    Miguel Gomes
  5. Cemetery of Splendor
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  6. No Home Movie
    Chantal Akerman
  7. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh
  8. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
  9. Amy
    Asif Kapadia
  10. Inherent Vice
    Paul Thomas Anderson
  11. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
  12. It Follows
    David Robert Mitchell
  13. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
  14. Girlhood
    Céline Sciamma
  15. Hard to Be a God
    Aleksey German
  16. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
  17. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
  18. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
    Jafar Panahi
  19. Horse Money
    Pedro Costa
  20. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
  21. Clouds of Sils Maria
    Olivier Assayas
  22. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
  23. Timbuktu
    Abderrahmane Sissako
  24. The Forbidden Room
    Guy Maddin
  25. My Golden Days
    Arnaud Desplechin
  26. Force Majeure
    Ruben Östlund
  27. Blackhat
    Michael Mann
  28. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
  29. Evolution
    Lucile Hadzihalilovic
  30. Ex Machina
    Alex Garland
  31. Heart of a Dog
    Laurie Anderson
  32. The Lobster
    Yorgos Lanthimos
  33. Right Now, Wrong Then
    Hong Sang-soo
  34. Room
    Lenny Abrahamson
  35. Sunset Song
    Terence Davies

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