‘Spotlight,’ ‘Big Short’ among the Top 15 films for 2015
– By Cate Marquis –
This year turned out to be a good one for cinema. Some years it is a struggle to find ten worthy films for a list of the year’s best. Not so this year. In fact, 2015 offered so many good films, both of the commercial big blockbuster type and the Oscar-bait variety and the smaller and international type, that expanding the list to 15 films seemed like a good idea. Additionally, “honorable mentions” and good films in special categories are listed.
These are my favorites – yours many be different. The Top 15 are ranked but all other films are listed alphabetically.
Top 15 for 2015
Spotlight
The Big Short
The Revenant
Brooklyn
Ex Machina
45 Years
The Martian
Son of Saul
Straight Outta Compton
Amy
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
Youth
Honorable Mentions
Carol
Chi-Raq
Coming Home
Danish Girl
Diary of a Teenaged Girl
Dope
Grandma
Infinitely Polar Bear
Love and Mercy
Mr. Holmes
Pawn Sacrifice
Room
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Suffragette
Truth
The Walk
Best Documentaries
Amy
Deli Man
Going Clear
Iris
Lambert and Stamp
Listen to Me Marlon
Merchants of Doubt
Seymour: An Introduction
Best Animated
Anomalisa
Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep
Best Comedies (excludes animated)
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared
Trainwreck
Wild Tales
What We Do In the Shadows
Best Foreign-language (some of these only played film festivals or film series)
The Assassin
Embrace of the Serpent
The Fool
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Timbuktu
Wild Tales
