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1. Hard to Be a God
2. The Duke of Burgundy
3. Entertainment
4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. The Lobster
6. Heaven Knows What
7. The Hateful Eight
8. The Revenant
9. Maps to the Stars
10. Love and Mercy

In no particular order:

Ex Machina
World of Tomorrow
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
Taxi
Crimson Peak
Love and Mercy
Phoenix
Sicario
Timbuktu

1. Blackhat
2. Pasolini
3. Bridge of Spies
4. Mountains May Depart
5. Bitter Lake
6. Magic Mike XXL
7. Creed
8. Joy
9. The Visit
10. Unfriended
10. Jupiter Ascending

also liked: France est Notre Patrie, Rogue Nation, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Taking of Tiger Mountain, Spectre, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

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Seen: Kingsman: The Secret Service; Mad Max: Fury Road; Star Wars: The Force Awakens; Inside Out; Avengers: The Age of Ultron; Jurassic World; Furious 7; The Big Short; Spy; Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck; What We Do In the Shadows; Mr. Holmes; The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water; Tangerine; The Duke of Burgundy; World of Tomorrow; The Big Short; Sicario; Buzzard; Cobain: Montage of Heck; What Happened, Miss Simone?

1. Mad Max: Fury Road - 10/10
2. Steve Jobs - 10/10
3. Spotlight - 10/10
4. Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens - 10/10
5. The Peanuts Movie - 10/10
6. The Revenant - 9/10
7. Inside Out - 9/10
8. The Martian - 9/10
9. Ant-Man - 9/10
10. Room - 9/10


Other 2015 films seen:

Avengers: Age of Ultron - 8/10
Beasts of No Nation - 7/10
The Big Short - 8/10
Blackhat - 5/10
Black Mass - 7/10
Bridge of Spies - 7/10
CHAPPiE - 6/10
Creed - 8/10
Crimson Peak - 7/10
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? - 7/10
Ex Machina - 7/10
Goosebumps - 6/10
Hardcore Henry - 5/10
The Hateful Eight - 7/10
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 - 6/10
The Intern - 5/10
In the Heart of the Sea - 6/10
Irrational Man - 4/10
Jupiter Ascending - 2/10
Jurassic World - 8/10
Macbeth - 7/10
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - 7/10
Miles Ahead - 5/10
Minions - 7/10
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - 7/10
Mr. Holmes - 7/10
The Scorch Trials - 6/10
Sicario - 8/10
Son of Saul - 9/10
Spectre - 8/10
The Stanford Prison Experiment - 7/10
Straight Outta Compton - 7/10
Terminator Genisys - 4/10
Tomorrowland - 6/10
Trumbo - 8/10
The Walk - 6/10
The Witch - 8/10
Woman in Gold - 7/10


Last updated 7/6/17

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Hateful Eight
3. Sicario
4. Bridge of Spies
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. It Follows
7. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Reflecting on Existence
8. Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
9. Queen & Country
10. Straight Outta Compton

Was going to find a good spot for Ned Rifle too, but I see it was a 2014 release...

1. Inside Out (2015)
2. Mommy (2014)
3. Youth (2015)
4. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
5. Leviathan (2014)
6. Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
7. The Martian (2015)
8. Ex Machina (2015)
9. Phoenix (2014)
10. Carol (2015)

Fell off the list: Sicario (2015), Mr Turner (2014), It Follows (2015), Night Will Fall (2014), Wild Tales (2014), The Duke of Burgundy (2014)

1) Inside Out
2) Ex Machina
3) Eden
4) The Hateful 8
5) Mad Max: Fury Road
6) Spotlight
7) Clouds of Sils Maria
8) Carol
9) The End of the Tour
10) Hitchcock/Truffaut

Also Seen (in order of preference)

Tangerine
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Latin Lover
The Martian
Results
Star Wars
The Big Short
The Revenant
Arabian Nights
The Assassin
Mistress America
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Love & Mercy
Listen To Me Marlon
Irrational Man
Brooklyn
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Paper Towns

No '39, '94, or '07 but a good year for film.

Room
Trumbo
Love & Mercy
Mustang
The Big Short
Steve Jobs
The Beasts of No Nation
The Hateful Eight
The Lobster
45 Years


HM: Youth, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, Phoenix, Spotlight, Inside Out, Taxi, Bridge of Spies, Irrational Man, Amy, Best of Enemies, While We Were Young, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Straight Out of Compton , Victoria, James White, Tangerine, The Revenant, The Diary of a Young Girl, Black Mass, The Stanford Prison Experiment

Hated or was letdown:

James Bond - 007: SPECTRE
In the Heart of the Sea
Anomalisa
The Walk
It Follows
Sicario
The Martian
The Wolfpack
True Story
Knight of Cups
Trainwreck
Focus

01. Mistress America (Baumbach)
02. Anomalisa (Kaufman/Johnson)
03. The Hateful Eight (Tarantino)
04. Mommy (Dolan)
05. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
06. Phoenix (Petzold)
07. Bridge of Spies (Spielberg)
08. Love & Mercy (Pohlad)
09. Creed (Coogler)
10. Crimson Peak (del Toro)

LAST UPDATED: 10/27/2025

Past lists: 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

1. The Hateful Eight
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Mistress America
4. Anomalisa
5. Mustang
6. Love and Mercy
7. Sicario
8. Ex Machina
9. Creed
10. The Revenant

1. Ant-Man (4/5)
2. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (4/5)
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron (3/5)

1. Mistress America (Baumbach, 2015)
2. It Follows (Mitchell, 2014)
3. Ex Machina (Garland, 2015)
4. World of Tomorrow (Hertzfeldt, 2015)
5. The Forbidden Room (Maddin, 2015)
6. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller, 2015)
7. Anomalisa (Johnson & Kaufman, 2015)
8. The Assassin (Hou, 2015)
9. Carol (Hayes, 2015)
10. Sleeping with Other People (Headland, 2015)

Diary of a Teenage Girl (Heller, 2015)
The Hateful Eight (Tarantino, 2015)
Inside Out (Doctor, 2015)
Sicario (Villeneuve, 2015)
Mission Impossible - Rogue Nation (McQuarrie, 2015)
The End of the Tour (Ponsoldt, 2015)
Phoenix (Petzold, 2015)
While We're Young (Baumbach, 2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Whedon, 2015)
The Big Short (McKay, 2015)
Magic Mike XXL (Jacobs, 2015)
Joy (Russell, 2015)
Ant-Man (Reed, 2015)
Spy (Feig, 2015)
The Martian (Scott, 2015)
Bridge of Spies (Spielberg, 2015)
Spotlight (McCarthy, 2015)

1. Steve Jobs
2. Hard to Be a God -- Impressive camerawork married to gore and muck
3. Theeb (Jordan) -- Jordanian desert trek amid WWI intrigue, growing up, and the need for revenge.
4. Love & Mercy
5. Stanford Prison Experiment -- 6 days is all it took
6. The Big Short -- very good ensemble cast. Not a style I really like, but it did add vibrancy.
7. Straight Outta Compton
8. 99 Homes -- the big short comes knocking on your door ...
9. Difret (Ethiopia)
10. The Peanuts Movie
11. Son of Saul

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Disliked:
The Martian - glib
Phoenix - couldn't buy the premise at all
Eisenstein in Guanajuato -- who cares about his sex life?

Up a page from last year!

Based on UK release dates:

1) Amy
2) Inside Out
3) Steve Jobs
4) Love is All
5) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
6) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
7) Life of Riley
8) It Follows
9) The Martian
10) Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films

1. The Assassin
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. The Hateful Eight
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
5. It Follows
6. Magic Mike XXL
7. Inside Out
8. Krampus
9. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
10. Crimson Peak

1. MacBeth
2. Steve Jobs
3. Ex Machina
4. Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Beasts of No Nation
7. Brooklyn
8. Straight Outta Compton
9. Sicario
10. Inside Out

List includes 2015 films only per IMDb release date.

1. The Revenant (Iñárritu)
2. Chi-Raq (Lee)
3. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
4. Inside Out (Docter)
5. The Big Short (McKay)
6. Blackhat (Mann)
7. Youth (Sorrentino)
8. The Lobster (Lanthimos)
9. Dheepan (Audiard)
10. Sicario (Villeneuve)

1. Song of the Sea
2. Jupiter Ascending
3. Blackhat

01. The Hateful Eight (Tarantino)
02. Crimson Peak (Del Toro)
03. Ex Machina (Garland)
04. Mad Max: Fury Road (Miller)
05. Bone Tomahawk (Zahler)
06. Spotlight (McCarthy)
07. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Abrams)
08. The Look of Silence (Oppenheimer)
09. Sicario (Villeneuve)
10. The Revenant (Inarritu)

Also-Rans (or, 11-20)
Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas), Beasts of No Nation (Fukunaga), Goodnight Mommy (Fiala, Franz), It Follows (Mitchell), Junun (Anderson), Inside Out (Docter, Del Carmen), Creed (Coogler), Jauja (Alonso), The Gift (Edgerton), Amy (Kapadia), The Duke of Burgundy (Strickland)

Still Dying To See
The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien), Carol (Haynes), Anomalisa (Johnson, Kaufman - as one of the original Kickstarter backers, it really cheeses me that I haven't been able to see this one yet)

Five Most Hated-Hated-Hateds
5. Tomorrowland (Bird)
4. Blackhat (Mann)
3. Z for Zachariah (Zobel)
2. Insurgent (Schwentke)
1. Mistress America (Baumbach)

2015 Releases Viewed: 54 of 328 total viewings
Taken 3, Blackhat, Ex Machina, The Duke of Burgundy, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, It Follows, Digging Up the Marrow, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Into the Grizzly Maze, Love & Mercy, Insurgent, Spring, Dark Places, Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened?, Mad Max: Fury Road, Tomorrowland, Yakuza Apocalypse, Hot Girls Wanted, Insidious: Chapter 3, We Are Still Here, The Nightmare, Jurassic World, Inside Out, Minions, Amy, Paper Towns, Ant-Man, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, The Gift, Mistress America, Z for Zachariah, No Escape, Spotlight, Beasts of No Nation, Brooklyn, Everest, The Martian, The Final Girls, Junun, Bridge of Spies, Crimson Peak, Room, Bone Tomahawk, Creed, Chi-Raq, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Hateful Eight, Sicario, Jauja, The Revenant, The Look of Silence, The Salvation

1. It Follows (David Robert Mitchell)
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan)
3. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako)
4. Enemy (Denis Villeneuve)
5. Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
6. Ex Machina (Alex Garland)
7. Eden (Mia Hansen-Love)
8. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)

Mad Max: Fury Road
American Ultra
Creed
Ex Machina
The Hateful Eight
Mistress America
Spectre
Spotlight
Spy
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
...

1. Anomalisa
2. Ex Machina
3. The Mend
4. What We Do In The Shadows
5. Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
6. The Walk
7. Turbo Kid
8. Mad Max-Fury Road
9. Mistress America
10. Steve Jobs

Honorable mention: Spotlight, The Hateful Eight, Son Of Saul, Legend, Blackhat, Love And Mercy, The Martian, Bone Tomahawk, The Big Short, Peace Officer, The Revenant, Cop Car, Sicario, A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence

Worst: Poltergeist, Project Almanac, It Follows, Cinderella

1) The Duke of Burgundy
2) Mad Max: Fury Road
3) What We Do in the Shadows
4) Carol
5) The Forbidden Room
6) Spotlight
7) Star Wars: The Force Awakens
8) While We're Young
9) The Hateful Eight
10) Mistress America

Also: Ant-Man, Spy, Trainwreck, Crimson Peak, Juaja, Avengers 2

01. Ex Machina (Garland)
01. The Tribe (Slaboshpitsky)
03. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (Amirpour)
04. Carol (Haynes)
05. The Duke Of Burgundy (Strickland)
06. Sunset Song (Davies)
07. Wild Tales (Szifron)
08. The Falling (Morley)
09. Macbeth (Kurzel)
10. Still Alice (Glatzer/Westmoreland)