Top 10 of 2015

[Dead & Messed Up]

1. Mad Max Fury Road
["World of Tomorrow"]
2. Inside Out
3. It Follows
4. Creed
5. Spotlight
6. The Big Short
7. The Revenant
8. 99 Homes
9. Entertainment
10. Kingsman: The Secret Service

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11. Love & Mercy
12. MI: Rogue Nation
13. The Hateful Eight
14. What We Do in the Shadows
15. Furious 7
16. The Visit
17. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
18. Ant-Man
19. Trainwreck
20. The Divine Tragedies
21. Cinderella
22. Unfriended
23. Avengers: Age of Ultron
24. Insidious Chapter Three
25. Jurassic World
26. The Final Girls
27. Stung
28. Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
29. Archivo 253

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[Dukefrukem]

1 Mad Max: Fury Road
2 It Follows
3 The Gunman
4 The Hateful Eight
5 The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?
6 Wild Card
7 Bone Tomahawk
8 Avengers: Age of Ultron
9 Last Shift
10 Inside Out

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11 Turbo Kid
12 Trainwreck
13 Ex Machina
14 Tomorrowland
15 The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
16 Run All Night
17 Vacation
18 Ant-Man
19 Ted 2
20 Pitch Perfect 2
21 San Andreas
22 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
23 Chappie
24 The Martian
25 Star Wars: The Force Awakens
26 Focus
27 The Loft
28 Self/less
29 The Gift
30 The Visit
31 Everest
32 Kingsman: The Secret Service
33 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension
-----------------------------------------------------------------The Nay Line
34 Furious 7
35 Terminator Genisys
36 Last Knights
37 Maggie
38 Bridge of Spies
39 Unfriended
40 The Gallows
41 Jupiter Ascending
42 Spectre
43 Taken 3
44 Pan
45 American Ultra
46 Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
47 Absolutely Anything
48 Batman vs. Robin
49 Jurassic World
50 Love
51 The Transporter Refueled
52 Southpaw
53 Hitman: Agent 47
54 Insidious: Chapter 3
55 Air
56 Get Hard
57 The Stranger
58 Fantastic Four
59 Poltergeist
60 The Lazarus Effect
61 Monsters: Dark Continent

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[baby doll]

Masterpieces
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
Jafar Panahi's Taxi (Jafar Panahi)

Must sees
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi)
Jimmy's Hall (Ken Loach)
Joy (David O. Russell)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
White God (Kornél Mundruczó)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifrón)

Worth seeing
Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan)
Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
Une nouvelle amie (François Ozon)
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara) [125 minute version]

Have redeeming facet
50 Shades of Grey (Sam Taylor-Johnson)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
Tom Ã* la ferme (Xavier Dolan)
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)

Here's where I'm at for the middle of January.

[transmogrifier]

1. Sicario
2. It Follows

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Tangerine
2. Theeb
3. The Revenant
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Beasts of No Nation
6. The Forbidden Room
7. Partisan
8. Güeros
9. Heaven Knows What
10. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

[ContinentalOp]

1. World of Tomorrow
2. The Martian
3. Mad Max
4. Bridge of Spies
5. MI 5
6. The Revenant
7. Bone Tomahawk
8. Sicario
9. Slow West
10. Best of Enemies

11. White God

[Stay Puft]

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve)
3. Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas)
4. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
5. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
6. Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
7. Hard to Be a God (Aleksei German)
8. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
9. R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto)
10. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie)

[Izzy Black]

1. The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
2. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
3. Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
4. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
5. Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)
6. Duke of Burgandy (Peter Strickland)
7. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)
8. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
9. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams)
10. Creed (Ryan Coogler)

[baby doll]

2. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)

Really, dude? Maybe the fact of Akerman killing herself shortly after the film's premiere makes it more interesting to sit through (though I can't imagine how), but when I saw this at TIFF in September, it bored the bejesus out of me. But then I'd always admired Akerman's films for their structural rigour and visual beauty, of which this movie has none whatsoever.

[Izzy Black]

Really, dude? Maybe the fact of Akerman killing herself shortly after the film's premiere makes it more interesting to sit through (though I can't imagine how), but when I saw this at TIFF in September, it bored the bejesus out of me. But then I'd always admired Akerman's films for their structural rigour and visual beauty, of which this movie has none whatsoever.

Akerman's death certainly colors the film for me, particularly the ending. You can see her despair in the film.

I disagree with you about the beauty of the film, but I acknowledge it's one of her most trying films and breaks from her traditional technique in important ways (although it's continuous with a certain shift marked by Almayer's Folly). I think it's one of her best films.