Year-End Lists

Slant Magazine: 50 Best Films of 2015

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1. Mad Max: Fury Road
   George Miller
2. In Jackson Heights
   Frederick Wiseman
3. Timbuktu
   Abderrahmane Sissako
4. Horse Money
   Pedro Costa
5. Magic Mike XXL
   Gregory Jacobs
6. Hard to Be a God
   Aleksey German
7. Heart of a Dog
   Laurie Anderson
8. Blackhat
   Michael Mann
9. The Assassin
   Hou Hsiao-Hsien
10. Chi-Raq
    Spike Lee
11. Li’l Quinquin
    Bruno Dumont
12. Jafar Panahi’s Taxi
    Jafar Panahi
13. Queen of Earth
    Alex Ross Perry
14. The Look of Silence
    Joshua Oppenheimer
15. Heaven Knows What
    Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie
16. Jauja
    Lisandro Alonso
17. The Forbidden Room
    Guy Maddin
18. Phoenix
    Christian Petzold
19. Carol
    Todd Haynes
20. Creed
    Ryan Coogler
21. Mistress America
    Noah Baumbach
22. Son of Saul
    László Nemes
23. Of Men and War
    Laurent Bécue-Renard
24. Eastern Boys
    Robin Campillo
25. 45 Years
    Andrew Haigh

Just missed making it into the top 25

26. About Elly
    Asghar Farhadi
27. Arabian Nights
    Miguel Gomes
28. Salvation Army
    Abdellah Taïa
29. The Kindergarten Teacher
    Nadav Lapid
30. Tangerine
    Sean Baker
31. Anomalisa
    Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
32. Welcome to New York
    Abel Ferrara
33. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
    Roy Andersson
34. Girlhood
    Céline Sciamma
35. Buzzard
    Joel Potrykus
36. The Duke of Burgundy
    Peter Strickland
37. The Pearl Button
    Patricio Guzmán
38. Of Horses and Men
    Benedikt Erlingsson
39. Madam Phung’s Last Journey
    Nguyễn Thị Thấm
40. We Come as Friends
    Hubert Sauper
41. Entertainment
    Rick Alverson
42. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
43. The Fool
    Yuri Bykov
44. Maps to the Stars
    David Cronenberg
45. La Última Película
    Raya Martin and Mark Peranson
46. Inside Out
    Pete Docter
47. Gangs of Wasseypur
    Anurag Kashyap
48. Office
    Johnnie To
49. Coming Home
    Zhang Yimou
50. The Princess of France
    Matías Piñeiro