Year-End Lists

Village Voice Film Poll: Top 50 Films of 2015 (as published in The Village Voice, comprised of votes from over 125 critics)

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

This list summarizes other lists, including these:

• A.V. Club: Nick Schager: The Best Films of 2015
• Village Voice Film Poll: Miriam Bale: Top 10 Films of 2015