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The 10 Best, No, The 100 Best Films Of 2015

Kam Williams
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10 Best Big Budget Films

  1. Kingsman: The Secret Service
  2. The Revenant
  3. Furious 7
  4. Unfriended
  5. Creed
  6. Jurassic World
  7. The Martian
  8. Black Mass
  9. Trainwreck
  10. Inside Out

 

Big Budgets Honorable Mention

 

  1. It Follows
  2. Star Wars: Episode VII- The Force Awakens
  3. McFarland, USA
  4. American Ultra
  5. Southpaw
  6. Insidious: Chapter 3
  7. Run All Night
  1. Straight Outta Compton
  2. Insurgent
  3. Concussion
  4. Pitch Perfect 2
  5. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
  6. Get Hard
  7. Mad Max
  8. The Gallows

 

 

10 Best Independent Films

 

  1. Dope
  2. Spotlight
  3. Desert Dancer
  4. Brooklyn
  5. Room
  6. Tangerine
  7. Mistress America
  8. Carol
  9. Ex Machina
  10. Me & Earl & the Dying Girl

 

Independent Films Honorable Mention

 

  1. Welcome to Me
  2. I’ll See You in My Dreams
  3. Suffragette
  4. The Danish Girl
  5. The Gift
  6. Love & Mercy
  7. Big Muddy
  8. Shelter
  9. Good Kill
  10. Meet the Patels
  11. No Escape
  12. Old Fashioned
  13. Forever
  14. The Rewrite
  15. Like Sunday, Like Rain

 

 

10 Best Foreign Films

 

  1. Mustang (Turkey)
  2. The Second Mother (Brazil)
  3. Girlhood (France)
  4. Frame by Frame (Afghanistan)
  5. Cartel Land (Mexico)
  6. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch (Sweden)
  7. Beasts of No Nation (Ghana)
  8. Farewell, Herr Schwarz (Poland)
  9. Something Better to Come (Russia)
  10. Winter on Fire (Ukraine)

 

Foreign Films Honorable Mention

 

  1. Goodnight Mommy (Austria)
  2. The Boy and the World (Brazil)
  3. Man from Reno (Japan)
  4. Above and Beyond (Israel)
  5. Days of Grace (Mexico)
  6. The Look of Silence (Indonesia)
  7. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Japan)
  8. My Voice, My Life (Hong Kong)
  9. 1001 Grams (Norway)
  10. Mateo (Cuba)
  11. Sweet Micky for President (Haiti)
  12. Voices of Auschwitz (Poland)
  13. Assassin (Taiwan)
  14. When Marnie Was There (Japan)
  15. The Dead Lands (New Zealand)

 

 

10 Best Documentaries

 

  1. He Named Me Malala
  2. Hitchcock/Truffaut
  3. The Wrecking Crew
  4. Listen to Me Marlon
  5. The Hunting Ground
  6. Best of Enemies
  7. 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets
  8. Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
  9. What Happened, Miss Simone?
  10. The Wolfpack

 

Documentaries Honorable Mention

 

  1. Racing Extinction
  2. What Our Fathers Did
  3. Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church
  1. Iris
  2. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
  3. Rosenwald
  1. Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
  2. Bass Clef Bliss
  3. Peace Officer
  4. Where to Invade Next
  5. Welcome to Leith
  6. 1971
  7. (T)error
  8. The Human Experiment
  9. The Hand That Feeds