Wednesday, January 6, 2016

The 10 Best, No, the 100 Best Films of 2015

                        The 10 Best, No, the 100 Best Films of 2015
by Kam Williams

Kam’s Annual Assessment of the Cream of the Cinematic Crop


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

11. It Follows
12. Star Wars: Episode VII- The Force Awakens
13. McFarland, USA
14. American Ultra
15. Southpaw
16. Insidious: Chapter 3
17: Run All Night
18. Straight Outta Compton
19. Insurgent
20. Concussion
21. Pitch Perfect 2
22. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
23. Get Hard
24. Mad Max
25. 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

11. Welcome to Me
12. I'll See You in My Dreams
13. Suffragette
14. The Danish Girl
15. The Gift
16. Love & Mercy
17. Big Muddy
18. Shelter
19. Good Kill
20. Meet the Patels
21. No Escape
22. Old Fashioned
23. Forever
24. The Rewrite
25. 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

11. Goodnight Mommy (Austria)
12. The Boy and the World (Brazil)
13. Man from Reno (Japan)
14. Above and Beyond (Israel)
15. Days of Grace (Mexico)
16. The Look of Silence (Indonesia)
17. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Japan)
18. My Voice, My Life (Hong Kong)
19. 1001 Grams (Norway)
20. Mateo (Cuba)
21. Sweet Micky for President (Haiti)
22. Voices of Auschwitz (Poland)
23. Assassin (Taiwan)
24. When Marnie Was There (Japan)
25. 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

11. Racing Extinction
12. What Our Fathers Did
13: Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church
14. Iris
15. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
16: Rosenwald
17. Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
18. Bass Clef Bliss
19. Peace Officer
20. Where to Invade Next
21. Welcome to Leith
22. 1971
23. (T)error
24. The Human Experiment
25. The Hand That Feeds

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