Team Screen’s best films of 2015

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Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films seen in 2015.

MATT MUELLER (Editor)

1. Force Majeure (dir. Ruben Ostlund)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller)
3. The Look Of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
4. The Revenant (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
5. Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)
6. Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
7. Sunset Song (dir. Terence Davies)
8. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)
9. The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott)
10. Anomalisa (dirs. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)

MICHAEL ROSSER (Managing editor)

1. Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
2. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller)
3. Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)
4. Room (dir. Lenny Abrahamson)
5. The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott)
6. Inside Out (dirs. Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen)
7. Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
8. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
9. Slow West (dir. John Maclean)
10. Straight Outta Compton (dir. F Gary Gray) / Star Wars: The Force Awakens (dir. JJ Abrams)

JEREMY KAY (US editor)

1. Anomalisa (dirs. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)
2. The Second Mother (dir. Anna Muylaert)
3. Labyrinth Of Lies (dir. Giulio Ricciarelli)
4. Clouds Of Sils Maria (dir. Olivier Assayas)
5. Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy)
6. Girlhood (dir. Celine Sciamma)
7. Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)
8. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller)
9. Cartel Land (dir. Matthew Heineman)
10. Love & Mercy (dir. Bill Pohlad)

ANDREAS WISEMAN (Head of news/chief reporter)

1. Embrace Of The Serpent (dir. Ciro Guerra)
2. Palio (dir. Cosima Spender)
3. Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy)
4. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)
5. Macbeth (dir. Justin Kurzel)
6. Everest (dir. Baltasar Kormakur)
7. Best Of Enemies (dirs. Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville)
8. The Postman’s White Nights (dir. Andrey Konchalovskiy)/Ixcanul (dir. Jayro Bustamante) (tie)
9. Spy (dir. Paul Feig)
10. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)/High-Rise (dir. Ben Wheatley) (tie)

FIONNUALA HALLIGAN (Reviews editor/chief film critic)

1. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
2. Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
3. The Revenant (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
4. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)
5. Taxi Tehran (dir. Jafar Panahi)
6. The Big Short (dir. Adam McKay)
7. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (dir. JJ Abrams)
8. Sunset Song (dir. Terence Davies)
9. Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
10. Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Erguven)

TOM GRATER (Reporter/web assistant)

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller)
2. Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
3. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
4. Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)
5. Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
6. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (dir. JJ Abrams)
7. Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy)
8. Steve Jobs (dir. Danny Boyle)
9. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)
10. The Club (dir. Pablo Larrain)

WENDY MITCHELL (Contributing editor)

1. Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
2. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
3. Room (dir. Lenny Abrahamson)
4. Brooklyn (dir. John Crowley)
5. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (dir. Marielle Heller)
6. Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
7. Sunset Song (dir. Terence Davies)
8. The Revenant (dir Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
9. Heart Of A Dog (dir. Laurie Anderson)
10. Virgin Mountain (dir. Dagur Kari)

 

GEOFFREY MACNAB (UK correspondent)

1. The Revenant (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
2. Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
3. Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
4. The Diary Of A Teenage Girl (dir. Marielle Heller)
5. Me And Earl And The Dying Girl (dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon)
6. Precinct Seven Five (dir. Tiller Russell)
7. Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
8. The Hateful Eight (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
9. Brooklyn (dir. John Crowley)
10. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)

MELANIE GOODFELLOW (France correspondent)

1. Clouds Of Sils Maria (dir. Olivier Assayas)
2. Thru You Princess (dir. Ido Haar)
3. Force Majeure (dir. Ruben Ostlund)
4. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
5. Legend (dir. Brian Helgeland)
6. Eden (dir. Mia Hansen-Love)
7. April 9th (dir. Roni Ezra)
8. Taxi Tehran (dir. Jafar Panahi)
9. Minions (dirs. Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin)
10. Furious 7 (dir. James Wan)

EDNA FAINARU (Israel correspondent)

1. Blood Of My Blood (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
2. Virgin Mountain (dir. Dagur Kari)
3. The Assassin (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. Youth (dir. Paolo Sorrentino)
5. My Golden Days (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
6. Taxi Tehran (dir. Jafar Panahi)
7. Evolution (dir. Lucile Hadzihalilovic)
8. Sunset Song (dir. Terence Davies)
9. Our Little Sister (dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
10. Anomalisa (dirs. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)

ALEXIS GRIVAS (Greece correspondent)

1. Taxi Tehran (dir. Jafar Panahi)
2. Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
3. The Assassin (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. Our Little Sister (dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
6. My Golden Days (dir. Arnaud Desplechin)
7. Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
8. Sunset Song (dir. Terence Davies)
9. 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)
10. Mustang (dir. Deniz Gamze Erguven)

ELAINE GUERINI (Brazil correspondent)

1. Room (dir. Lenny Abrahamson)
2. Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy)
3. Our Little Sister (dir. Hirokazu Kore-Eda)
4. The Clan (dir. Pablo Trapero)
5. Steve Jobs (dir. Danny Boyle)
6. Heart Of A Dog (dir. Laurie Anderson)
7. Anomalisa (dirs. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)
8. The Hateful Eight (dir. Quentin Tarantino)
9. Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)
10. The Second Mother (dir. Anna Muylaert)

VLADAN PETKOVIC (Balkan correspondent)

1. Inside Out (dirs. Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen)
2. Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)
3. The Assassin (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
4. Dead Slow Ahead (dir. Maura Herce)
5. Montanha (dir. Joao Salaviza)
6. Twilight Of A Life (dir. Sylvain Biegeleisen)
7. Cemetery Of Splendour (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
8. The Look Of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
9. Under The Sun (dir. Vitaly Mansky)
10. Rams (dir. Grimur Hakonarson)

NIKKI BAUGHAN (supplement editor)

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller)
2. Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
3. Suffragette (dir. Sarah Gavron)
4. Steve Jobs (dir. Danny Boyle)
5. Spotlight (dir. Tom McCarthy)
6. Girlhood (dir. Celine Sciamma)
7. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)
8. The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
9. Brooklyn (dir. John Crowley)
10. Crimson Peak (dir. Guillermo del Toro)

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL - OVERALL TOP 10

1. Son Of Saul
2. 45 Years
3. Carol
4. Spotlight
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Ex Machina / Room / The Revenant (Tie)
7. Taxi Tehran
8. Tangerine