Below, we collect every year-end Top Ten list published by major film critics and publications. This page will be updated throughout December and January whenever new lists are published; be sure to check back frequently.

Critics pick the best movies of 2015

Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year-end Top Ten lists. Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 10 films, we will not include films ranked 11th or worse. In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position. Our points system works as follows:

3 points for each 1st place ranking

for each 1st place ranking 2 points for each 2nd place ranking

for each 2nd place ranking 1 point for being ranked 3rd - 10th, or for being included on an unranked list

Individual critic top ten lists

Below are the 260 individual top ten lists published by the film critics regularly included in Metacritic's score calculations, as well as a few extra lists from additional prominent film sources. Some critics merely list ten films without ranking them in order; such lists are displayed below, without numbers, in alphabetical order.

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz View full list Spotlight Ex Machina Inside Out Room It Follows Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Timbuktu Carol Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

J. Hoberman View full list The Assassin The Guests No Home Movie Hard to Be a God Mexico at Midnight (MOMA screening series) Cemetery of Splendor Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) Phoenix Continuous Variation The Walk James Quandt Labour in a Single Shot (shorts exhibition) Visit, or Memories and Confessions Bleak Street Singularity Neon Bull Ashes Michaël Borremans retrospective Lost and Beautiful Actua I The Owners of Dixie Amy Taubin No Home Movie The Knick (tv show) The Assassin Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler (retrospective) Experimenter Amy My Golden Days Don’t Blink: Robert Frank Carol Mistress America John Waters View full list Helmut Berger, Actor Cinderella The Forbidden Room Tom at the Farm Mad Max: Fury Road Carol The Diary of a Teenage Girl Tangerine Fly Colt Fly: Legend of the Barefoot Bandit Love Artforum

AskMen Olly Richards View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Whiplash Star Wars: The Force Awakens Slow West The Martian Steve Jobs Bridge of Spies Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Tangerines

Associated Press Lindsey Bahr View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Clouds of Sils Maria Ex Machina Tangerine Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter Brooklyn The Diary of a Teenage Girl Carol The Big Short Spy Jake Coyle View full list Carol About Elly Phoenix Spotlight Chi-Raq Stray Dog Anomalisa Creed 45 Years (tie) The Diary of a Teenage Girl (tie) Testament of Youth

The Atlantic Christopher Orr View full list Spotlight The Martian Mad Max: Fury Road The Big Short Sicario Inside Out The Revenant Magic Mike XXL Star Wars: The Force Awakens Steve Jobs

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Son of Saul Spotlight The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Big Short The Martian Victoria The Look of Silence Chi-Raq Steve Davis View full list Son of Saul Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Steve Jobs Brooklyn Amy Carol Listen to Me Marlon Tangerine Kimberley Jones View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Inside Out 45 Years Sleeping With Other People Clouds of Sils Maria Best of Enemies The Diary of a Teenage Girl Phoenix James White Josh Kupecki View full list The Tribe Son of Saul Sicario Spotlight Mustang Room A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Best of Enemies Phoenix Slow West Marc Savlov View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Victoria Son of Saul Chi-Raq Spotlight Tangerine The Look of Silence Youth The Tribe Phoenix

Mike D’Angelo View full list The Duke of Burgundy Sicario Mad Max: Fury Road The Forbidden Room Carol It Follows Anomalisa The Martian Breathe Tu Dors Nicole A.A. Dowd View full list Phoenix The Look of Silence It Follows 45 Years Mad Max: Fury Road Approaching the Elephant The Duke of Burgundy Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem Son of Saul About Elly Jesse Hassenger View full list It Follows Mistress America Mad Max: Fury Road Bridge of Spies Inside Out Sleeping With Other People While We're Young Ex Machina Mississippi Grind Creed Noel Murray View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Brooklyn The Duke of Burgundy Mustang 45 Years Phoenix Carol Anomalisa Blind Adam Nayman View full list Phoenix Jauja The Assassin The Princess of France Li’l Quinquin The Forbidden Room When Evening Falls On Bucharest Or Metabolism Horse Money Amour Fou Timbuktu Katie Rife View full list The Look of Silence Mad Max: Fury Road The Duke of Burgundy Room Tangerine Sicario It Follows Phoenix Brooklyn (tie) The End of the Tour (tie) The Martian Ignatiy Vishnevetsky View full list Phoenix It Follows Hard to Be a God The Assassin Bridge of Spies Mad Max: Fury Road The Hateful Eight Crimson Peak Sicario Office A.V. Club

Baltimore City Paper Staff View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Tangerine Spotlight Hard to Be a God The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Dope Magic Mike XXL Straight Outta Compton Creed Field Niggas

BBC Tom Brook (BBC Talking Movies) Brooklyn Carol Love & Mercy The Diary of a Teenage Girl Amy Bridge of Spies Inside Out Steve Jobs Son of Saul Spotlight Owen Gleiberman (BBC Culture) View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Love & Mercy Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Trainwreck Inside Out The End of the Tour Creed Clouds of Sils Maria Amy

Boston Globe Ty Burr View full list Spotlight 45 Years Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence Carol Heaven Knows What The Martian Tangerine Creed (tie) Girlhood (tie) Mustang

Boston Herald Stephen Schaefer View full list Brooklyn The Revenant The Big Short Mad Max: Fury Road Room Straight Outta Compton What Happened, Miss Simone? Bridge of Spies The Hateful Eight Timbuktu

The Buffalo News Jeff Simon View full list Amy

Brooklyn

Carol

Concussion

Ex Machina

Inside Out

The Martian

Room

Spotlight

Trainwreck

BuzzFeed Alison Willmore View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Carol Phoenix Creed Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] It Follows Ex Machina Eden Spotlight

Cahiers du cinéma Staff Mia Madre Cemetery of Splendor In the Shadow of Women The Smell of Us Mad Max: Fury Road Jauja Inherent Vice Arabian Nights The Summer of Sangaile Journey to the Shore

CBC Eli Glasner View full list Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Tangerine In Her Place The Big Short Brooklyn Ex Machina Paddington Timbuktu The Last 5 Years

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones View full list White God 99 Homes Spotlight Maps to the Stars Queen and Country Court Mommy About Elly Youth Results Ben Sachs View full list Fish and Cat Inherent Vice Eden Blackhat Love Battles Hard to Be a God Mad Max: Fury Road Goodbye to Language The Office Nasty Baby

Chicago Sun-Times Richard Roeper View full list Room Inside Out The Revenant The Big Short Mad Max: Fury Road The Hateful Eight Sicario Spotlight Star Wars: The Force Awakens Straight Outta Compton

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips View full list Spotlight Anomalisa Love & Mercy The Diary of a Teenage Girl Son of Saul Carol Beasts of No Nation Creed Heart of a Dog Tangerine

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer View full list Brooklyn Seymour: An Introduction In Jackson Heights Room Listen to Me Marlon Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem When Marnie Was There Ex Machina The Lady in the Van Anomalisa

CinemaDope Glenn Lovell View full list Spotlight Beasts of No Nation Creed Brooklyn Mad Max: Fury Road Trainwreck Sicario (tie) Bone Tomahawk (tie) The Hateful Eight Ex Machina Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Cinephiled Danny Miller View full list 45 Years

Brooklyn

The Hateful Eight

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Room

Son of Saul

Spotlight

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

CineVue Staff consensus View full list Carol 45 Years Son of Saul Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight The Club Sunset Song The Assassin Anomalisa Sicario

Cleveland Plain Dealer Troy L. Smith View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight It Follows Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Big Short Sicario Creed Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Inside Out Beasts of No Nation

Collider Chris Cabin View full list Arabian Nights In Jackson Heights Li’l Quinquin Queen of Earth Timbuktu Heaven Knows What Hard to Be a God Carol The Assassin Results Adam Chitwood View full list Sicario Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Ex Machina Brooklyn The Big Short Steve Jobs Love & Mercy Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Brian Formo View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Arabian Nights Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Mistress America The Diary of a Teenage Girl Clouds of Sils Maria Magic Mike XXL 45 Years Creed Haleigh Foutch View full list Ex Machina Mad Max: Fury Road The Diary of a Teenage Girl Spotlight Tangerine The Final Girls Creed The Hateful Eight The Martian The Big Short Matt Goldberg View full list Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Ex Machina Brooklyn Inside Out Son of Saul Creed Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Finders Keepers Perri Nemiroff View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Room Brooklyn Star Wars: The Force Awakens It Follows Inside Out Sicario Spy The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Chappie

Consequence of Sound Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence Inside Out Sicario The Revenant Call Me Lucky Tangerine It Follows Entertainment Creed

Crave Online William Bibbiani View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence The Boy and the Beast Blind The End of the Tour Anomalisa The Voices The Duke of Burgundy The Walk Spotlight

The Daily Beast Marlow Stern View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Carol The Hateful Eight Timbuktu Phoenix Ex Machina Amy Love & Mercy The Revenant

Details Calum Marsh View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Mistress America Hard to Be a God Carol The Forbidden Room Arabian Nights Jauja Queen of Earth Listen to Me Marlon Unfriended

Detroit News Tom Long View full list Brooklyn Youth The Diary of a Teenage Girl James White Inside Out Spotlight Mistress America Mommy Room Tangerine

Den of Geek [UK] Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Ex Machina Sicario The Martian Star Wars: The Force Awakens Whiplash Chappie The Gift It Follows

Den of Geek [USA] David Crow View full list Room Brooklyn Steve Jobs Spotlight Inside Out Ex Machina The Revenant Mad Max: Fury Road The Hateful Eight Clouds of Sils Maria Don Kaye View full list Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road 99 Homes Creed Ex Machina Love & Mercy Inside Out Steve Jobs Amy Room

Digital Spy Staff consensus View full list Inside Out Whiplash Mad Max: Fury Road Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Martian Amy It Follows Brooklyn Steve Jobs Ex Machina

Empire Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Whiplash Inside Out Ex Machina Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sicario Steve Jobs The Martian It Follows Carol

Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty View full list Spotlight Sicario Room The Look of Silence Inside Out Creed Son of Saul Carol The Big Short It Follows

Film School Rejects Rob Hunter View full list Spotlight Youth Sicario Blind Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian About Elly The Look of Silence Steve Jobs Wildlike

The Film Stage Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Spotlight Phoenix Ex Machina Son of Saul Hard to Be a God Clouds of Sils Maria Chi-Raq Sicario

Flavorwire Jason Bailey View full list Brooklyn Spotlight Carol The Diary of a Teenage Girl Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Steve Jobs Girlhood Room Ex Machina

Flood Staff consensus View full list Brooklyn

The End of the Tour

Ex Machina

The Hateful Eight

Inside Out

It Follows

Macbeth

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Revenant

Spotlight

Fort Worth Star Telegram‎ Cary Darling View full list Spotlight Ex Machina Sicario The Revenant Love & Mercy Mad Max: Fury Road About Elly Carol Straight Outta Compton The Big Short

Fresno Bee Rick Bentley View full list Spotlight He Named Me Malala Inside Out Carol Sicario Brooklyn Youth Room Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Star Wars: The Force Awakens

GamesRadar Ian Sandwell View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sicario Ex Machina The Revenant Carol Creed It Follows The Martian

The Guardian Staff consensus View full list Son of Saul 45 Years The Revenant Anomalisa Bridge of Spies The Look of Silence Carol Amy Joy Mistress America Peter Bradshaw View full list 45 Years

Bridge of Spies

Carol

The Falling

Hard to Be a God

Inherent Vice

Inside Out

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Spectre

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

HitFix Drew McWeeny (Motion Captured) View full list Anomalisa Mad Max: Fury Road Room Creed Call Me Lucky Ex Machina Brooklyn The Hateful Eight Star Wars: The Force Awakens Beasts of No Nation

The Hollywood Reporter Todd McCarthy View full list The Tribe Brooklyn Son of Saul The Revenant The Diary of a Teenage Girl Anomalisa Mad Max: Fury Road Seymour: An Introduction 45 Years Carol

The Hollywood Reporter/Heat Vision Borys Kit View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Ex Machina Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation Star Wars: The Force Awakens It Follows Bone Tomahawk Ant-Man What We Do in the Shadows (tie) The Martian (tie) Paddington

The Hollywood Reporter/The Race Scott Feinberg View full list Brooklyn The Hateful Eight Spotlight Mustang 45 Years Room 99 Homes Far From the Madding Crowd Straight Outta Compton Love & Mercy

Huffington Post Matthew Jacobs View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Inside Out The Big Short Room Star Wars: The Force Awakens Tangerine Ex Machina The Martian

Indiewire Kate Erbland View full list Spotlight Brooklyn Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Ex Machina Creed The Revenant Mistress America The Diary of a Teenage Girl Dana Harris View full list Anomalisa

The Club

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Inside Out

Iris

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

Spotlight

Straight Outta Compton

Tangerine Eric Kohn View full list Son of Saul Tangerine Heaven Knows What A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Buzzard Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Heart of a Dog Carol Liz Shannon Miller View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Room Creed Spotlight The Martian Magic Mike XXL Brooklyn The Walk Welcome to Me Trainwreck Ben Travers View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Anomalisa Creed Sicario Steve Jobs Ex Machina Inside Out Spotlight The Voices

Ioncinema Nicholas Bell View full list Hard to Be a God Tangerine The Duke of Burgundy The Forbidden Room Alleluia Clouds of Sils Maria Mad Max: Fury Road Phoenix The Revenant 45 Years Welcome to New York

The Irish Times Donald Clarke View full list 45 Years

Catch Me Daddy

The Duke of Burgundy

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Inside Out

It Follows

Mommy

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Tangerine

The Tribe

Keyframe (Fandor) David Hudson View full list The Assassin Carol Inherent Vice Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Cemetery Of Splendour Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence 45 Years Victoria The Forbidden Room Kevin B. Lee View full list Horse Money The Assassin Hard to Be a God Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] The Look of Silence The Pearl Button Timbuktu Chi-Raq Stinking Heaven Field Niggas

LA Weekly Amy Nicholson View full list Chi-Raq Anomalisa The Hateful Eight American Ultra Mad Max: Fury Road Room Victoria Spy The Second Mother Tangerine

Las Vegas Weekly Josh Bell View full list Mistress America Far From the Madding Crowd Carol While We're Young It Follows Unfriended Ex Machina The Diary of a Teenage Girl Mustang Spotlight

Lincoln Journal Star L. Kent Wolgamott View full list Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Love & Mercy Inside Out The End of the Tour Heart of a Dog Steve Jobs Ex Machina Straight Outta Compton Tangerine

Little White Lies Staff View full list Carol Sunset Song The Look of Silence Taxi Tehran Timbuktu Selma Eden Mad Max: Fury Road Horse Money The Voices

Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Tangerine Ex Machina The Assassin The Diary of a Teenage Girl Creed While We're Young Chi-Raq Results Kenneth Turan View full list Brooklyn Remaining films listed alphabetically:

Amy

The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Carol

45 Years

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

Room

Son of Saul

Spotlight

Steve Jobs

Testament of Youth

Maclean's Brian D. Johnson View full list The Look of Silence The Big Short Meru Timbuktu Sicario Son of Saul Salt of the Earth Rams Spotlight Bridge of Spies

Metacritic Marc Doyle (Editor-in-Chief) It Follows Amy Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Room The Big Short Sicario The Gift Grandma Brooklyn

Metro UK Rebecca Lewis View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Whiplash Ex Machina Star Wars: The Force Awakens Brooklyn The Martian Inside Out Carol Suffragette Macbeth

Metro US Matt Prigge View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Mend World of Tomorrow Magic Mike XXL Saint Laurent Eden Experimenter Heaven Knows What Carol The Look of Silence

Miami Herald Connie Ogle View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Spotlight Girlhood The Hateful Eight Mistress America Room Clouds of Sils Maria Love & Mercy Rene Rodriguez View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight The Revenant Sicario Crimson Peak Creed White God The Hateful Eight The Duke of Burgundy

Misc./Other David Ehrlich Watch video countdown Carol World of Tomorrow Phoenix The Look of Silence A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence The Duke of Burgundy Eden Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter Mistress America Mad Max: Fury Road Christy Lemire View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight Ex Machina Room Carol 45 Years Inside Out Goodnight Mommy Tangerine The Martian Lisa Schwarzbaum View full list Inside Out Spotlight Carol Mad Max: Fury Road 45 Years The Diary of a Teenage Girl Spy 99 Homes Timbuktu Son of Saul

Movie City News Ray Pride View full list Carol Anomalisa Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] It Follows The Mend Mad Max: Fury Road Phoenix Ex Machina Hard to Be a God Heaven Knows What

Movie Mezzanine Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Tangerine Carol Mistress America 45 Years Magic Mike XXL The Look of Silence Brooklyn Timbuktu Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran]

Movie Nation Roger Moore View full list Suffragette Spotlight The Revenant 99 Homes Amy Ex Machina Tangerine The Big Short Mad Max: Fury Road Best of Enemies

MTV MTV News staff View full list Furious 7 Straight Outta Compton Dope Mad Max: Fury Road Creed Inside Out Amy Tangerine Jurassic World Sicario

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott View full list Spotlight Room Carol Inside Out Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Star Wars: The Force Awakens Brooklyn The Martian Black Mass

New Republic Will Leitch View full list Timbuktu Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Results The Martian Carol The Tribe Ex Machina Brooklyn The Nightmare

New York Observer Rex Reed View full list Spotlight Carol Brooklyn Room The Danish Girl Labyrinth of Lies Truth I'll See You in My Dreams 45 Years Bridge of Spies

New York Post Lou Lumenick View full list Spotlight (tie) Anomalisa (tie) Inside Out (tie) Creed (tie) Mad Max: Fury Road Bridge of Spies Room (tie) Love & Mercy (tie) Straight Outta Compton (tie) 45 Years (tie) Grandma (tie) Youth The Martian Trumbo (tie) Carol (tie) The Danish Girl Kyle Smith View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The End of the Tour Sunshine Superman Sicario Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Love & Mercy Anomalisa Youth Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Spotlight Sara Stewart View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight Straight Outta Compton (tie) Spy (tie) Trainwreck Tangerine The Danish Girl Ex Machina Love & Mercy The Diary of a Teenage Girl It Follows

The New York Times Manohla Dargis View full list (tie) The Assassin AND Mad Max: Fury Road Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler (retrospective) Bridge of Spies Carol In Jackson Heights The Martian The Kindergarten Teacher The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Big Short Sixty Six Stephen Holden View full list Carol The Big Short Spotlight The Fool The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Look of Silence Truth 45 Years Tangerine Brooklyn A.O. Scott View full list Timbuktu Inside Out (tie) The Big Short (tie) Spotlight Heart of a Dog (tie) Anomalisa (tie) Carol Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Out 1: Noli Me Tangere Mad Max: Fury Road Creed (tie) Results (tie) Welcome to Me

The New Yorker Richard Brody View full list Chi-Raq Li’l Quinquin Queen of Earth Heaven Knows What Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Timbuktu In Jackson Heights Mistress America Stinking Heaven Arabian Nights

Newsday Rafer Guzman View full list Inside Out Clouds of Sils Maria The Revenant Mad Max: Fury Road Amy In the Heart of the Sea The Stanford Prison Experiment Anomalisa When Marnie Was There The Tribe

NOW Magazine [Toronto] Susan G. Cole View full list Carol Phoenix Youth Mustang Girlhood Glenn Sumi View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Star Wars: The Force Awakens Carol Two Days, One Night Shaun the Sheep Movie Norman Wilner View full list The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby The Look of Silence Mad Max: Fury Road The Mend Amy Timbuktu A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night The Assassin The Big Short Paddington

Nylon Ben Barna View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Ex Machina Inside Out The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Martian Tangerine Dope It Follows Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

The Observer Mark Kermode View full list Inside Out A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Girlhood Carol The Falling Song of the Sea Brooklyn Sunset Song The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Omaha World-Herald Micah Mertes View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Sicario The Hateful Eight The Look of Silence Creed Inside Out Phoenix It Follows Tangerine Bridge of Spies

The Oregonian Jeff Baker View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Spotlight The Revenant Mr. Turner The Big Short Brooklyn Room Inside Out The End of the Tour

Paper Dennis Dermody View full list Carol Wild Tales Anomalisa It Follows Clouds of Sils Maria Tangerine Saint Laurent Goodnight Mommy The Wolfpack The Forbidden Room

Parallax View Sean Axmaker View full list Clouds of Sils Maria Carol Phoenix Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight 45 Years Mustang Jauja Ex Machina David Coursen View full list About Elly

Chi-Raq

Leviathan

Love & Mercy

Sicario

Spotlight

Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran]

Timbuktu

The Tribe

Winter Sleep John Hartl View full list 45 Years Spotlight Brooklyn Sicario Trumbo Carol Ex Machina Bridge of Spies Inside Out 99 Homes Richard T. Jameson View full list It Follows Clouds of Sils Maria Spotlight Bridge of Spies Room The Assassin 45 Years Son of Saul Jauja Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Jay Kuehner View full list The Assassin Carol Horse Money Jauja The Kindergarten Teacher Heaven Knows What The Wonders Arabian Nights Phoenix Kathleen Murphy View full list 45 Years

Bone Tomahawk

Brooklyn

Clouds of Sils Maria

It Follows

Jauja

Mad Max: Fury Road

Phoenix

Room

Son of Saul Bruce Reid View full list Experimenter Taxi It Follows The Hateful Eight Welcome to New York Blackhat Clouds of Sils Maria Timbuktu Queen and Country Maps to the Stars Andrew Wright View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Blackhat Carol The Hateful Eight It Follows Bridge of Spies Tangerine Bone Tomahawk Creed Sicario

Paste Staff consensus View full list Chi-Raq Cartel Land The Tribe White God Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem The End of the Tour Anomalisa Time Out of Mind Mad Max: Fury Road Mistress America

People Alynda Wheat View full list The Big Short Spotlight The Revenant Mad Max: Fury Road Room The Martian Carol Creed Sicario Brooklyn

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea View full list Anomalisa

Brooklyn

Carol

Clouds of Sils Maria

Creed

Ex Machina

Inside Out

The Martian

Room

Spotlight

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Barbara Vancheri View full list Spotlight The Martian Room Inside Out Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Brooklyn Black Mass Bridge of Spies The Revenant The Big Short

The Playlist Nikola Grozdanovic View full list The Assassin The Duke of Burgundy Mad Max: Fury Road 45 Years Hard to Be a God The Forbidden Room Carol Jauja A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Arabian Nights Jessica Kiang View full list 45 Years The Lobster The Club Carol Eden Mad Max: Fury Road Anomalisa Queen of Earth Spotlight Listen to Me Marlon Oktay Ege Kozak View full list Room Spotlight The Walk The Good Dinosaur Mad Max: Fury Road The Big Short Inside Out Creed The Duke of Burgundy Tangerine Nicholas Laskin View full list The Lobster Carol Spotlight Room Star Wars: The Force Awakens Mistress America Sicario Queen of Earth Inside Out Mad Max: Fury Road Oliver Lyttelton View full list The Lobster 45 Years Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out The Diary of a Teenage Girl Phoenix Cemetery Of Splendour The Duke of Burgundy Ex Machina Erik McClanahan View full list The Revenant World of Tomorrow Sicario Inside Out Ex Machina The Duke of Burgundy Tangerine James White Mad Max: Fury Road The Tribe Kimber Myers View full list Brooklyn Mustang The Diary of a Teenage Girl 45 Years Mad Max: Fury Road Wild Tales It Follows Far From the Madding Crowd Ex Machina The End of the Tour Rodrigo Perez View full list 45 Years Brooklyn Sicario Spotlight Carol Li’l Quinquin Steve Jobs Mustang Mistress America Anomalisa Katie Walsh View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Mustang Son of Saul Room Breathe Spotlight Macbeth Mistress America Cartel Land Carol

Reelviews James Berardinelli View full list The Hateful Eight The Martian Spotlight Carol The Big Short Sicario Inside Out The Revenant Creed Mad Max: Fury Road

Reverse Shot Staff consensus View full list In Jackson Heights Carol The Assassin Clouds of Sils Maria Timbuktu Hard to Be a God Arabian Nights The Look of Silence Eastern Boys Horse Money

Rolling Stone Peter Travers View full list Spotlight Steve Jobs Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Straight Outta Compton Tangerine The Martian Star Wars: The Force Awakens Anomalisa Inside Out

Salon Andrew O'Hehir View full list Carol Son of Saul Timbuktu Phoenix The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Tangerine In Jackson Heights The Diary of a Teenage Girl Mommy Welcome to Me About Elly

Salt Lake Tribune Sean P. Means View full list Room Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight Inside Out The Tribe The Martian The Hunting Ground Star Wars: The Force Awakens Steve Jobs

San Antonio Current Kiko Martinez View full list Spotlight The Look of Silence Steve Jobs Room Sicario Ex Machina Amy The Second Mother The Revenant Grandma

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle View full list Brooklyn Bridge of Spies Carol The Big Short Spotlight Southpaw 3 Hearts Love & Mercy 45 Years Star Wars: The Force Awakens

San Francisco Examiner Jeffrey M. Anderson View full list Inside Out The Assassin Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] The End of the Tour Maps to the Stars Mad Max: Fury Road The Royal Road A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Sicario Creed Anita Katz View full list Carol About Elly Son of Saul 45 Years Timbuktu Clouds of Sils Maria Spotlight The Look of Silence Best of Enemies Mustang

San Jose Mercury News Randy Myers View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight Mommy Room Love & Mercy Ex Machina The Big Short Tangerine Straight Outta Compton Star Wars: The Force Awakens

ScreenCrush Matt Singer View full list Inside Out Anomalisa Mad Max: Fury Road The Duke of Burgundy The Look of Silence Bridge of Spies The Walk The Hateful Eight Tangerine Ex Machina Erin Whitney View full list Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Beasts of No Nation Inside Out Brooklyn Anomalisa Victoria It Follows Clouds of Sils Maria 45 Years

Seattle Times Soren Andersen View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight The Revenant Ex Machina Chi-Raq Steve Jobs Kingsman: The Secret Service Goodnight Mommy The Martian The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Moira Macdonald View full list 45 Years

Brooklyn

Carol

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Grandma

Inside Out

Room

Shaun the Sheep Movie

Spotlight

(various reissues)

Seattle Weekly Robert Horton View full list 45 Years Son of Saul Bridge of Spies Experimenter It Follows Clouds of Sils Maria Ex Machina The Assassin Spotlight The Duke of Burgundy

SF Weekly Sherilyn Connelly View full list Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter Inside Out When Marnie Was There Clouds of Sils Maria The Diary of a Teenage Girl The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? Jauja East Side Sushi Heart of a Dog Maps to the Stars

Sioux City Journal Bruce R. Miller View full list Spotlight Inside Out The Martian Star Wars: The Force Awakens Steve Jobs The Big Short Room Straight Outta Compton Beasts of No Nation Creed

Slant Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road In Jackson Heights Timbuktu Horse Money Magic Mike XXL Hard to Be a God Heart of a Dog Blackhat The Assassin Chi-Raq

Slashfilm Ethan Anderton View full list Spotlight Mad Max: Fury Road Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Big Short Inside Out Steve Jobs What We Do in the Shadows Brooklyn Creed Sleeping With Other People Jeff Cannata View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Inside Out Sicario Victoria Star Wars: The Force Awakens While We're Young The Martian It Follows The Hateful Eight David Chen View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Inside Out Victoria Room Sicario Spotlight Wild Tales Ex Machina Amy Jack Giroux View full list The Diary of a Teenage Girl Mad Max: Fury Road Sicario The Hateful Eight Ex Machina Steve Jobs Bridge of Spies Mistress America Slow West The Big Short Jacob Hall View full list Anomalisa Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence What We Do in the Shadows The Hateful Eight It Follows Carol Ex Machina Inside Out Son of Saul Angie Han View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Spotlight What We Do in the Shadows Ex Machina Slow West Anomalisa Crimson Peak The Martian Cinderella Devindra Hardawar View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight Inside Out Ex Machina A Most Violent Year Sicario Star Wars: The Force Awakens Room The Martian Bridge of Spies

Slate Dana Stevens View full list 45 Years

Amy

Carol

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

Inside Out

The Look of Silence

The Second Mother

Spotlight

Spy

Tangerine

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson View full list The Big Short

Bridge of Spies

Brooklyn

Carol

Inside Out

The Martian

The Revenant

Spotlight

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Straight Outta Compton

The Star-Ledger/NJ.com Stephen Whitty View full list Anomalisa

Brooklyn

Carol

45 Years

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mr. Holmes

Room

Son of Saul

Spotlight

The Stranger Charles Mudede View full list White God Two Days, One Night 99 Homes Amour Fou Court Advantageous The Martian Clouds of Sils Maria Ex Machina Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran]

Tampa Bay Times Steve Persall View full list The Revenant Spotlight Inside Out Sicario Anomalisa Room 99 Homes Amy Love & Mercy Ex Machina

The Telegraph Robbie Collin View full list Hard to Be a God Mad Max: Fury Road Inherent Vice Inside Out Carol The Tale of the Princess Kaguya Macbeth Magic Mike XXL Song of the Sea Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Thompson on Hollywood Matt Brennan View full list The Duke of Burgundy Phoenix Carol Clouds of Sils Maria Brooklyn 45 Years The Look of Silence Spotlight Tom at the Farm Mississippi Grind Ryan Lattanzio View full list Carol Amy Queen of Earth Sicario Phoenix 45 Years James White Eden Stinking Heaven By the Sea Demetrious Matheou View full list Carol The Assassin Inherent Vice Amy Girlhood Sicario Steve Jobs Jauja Spotlight 45 Years (tie) Radiator Anne Thompson View full list Son of Saul Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out The Martian Spotlight Steve Jobs The Diary of a Teenage Girl Tangerine 45 Years Clouds of Sils Maria Susan Wloszczyna View full list Spotlight 45 Years Amy Room Inside Out Grandma Mad Max: Fury Road I'll See You in My Dreams Shaun the Sheep Movie Clouds of Sils Maria

Time Stephanie Zacharek View full list Spotlight Phoenix I'll See You in My Dreams Clouds of Sils Maria Iris Mustang Tangerine Creed The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Ex Machina

TimeOut London Staff View full list Carol Inherent Vice 45 Years Mad Max: Fury Road Amy Inside Out It Follows Birdman Girlhood London Road

TimeOut New York Joshua Rothkopf View full list Brooklyn Son of Saul Heaven Knows What Phoenix Sicario Spotlight Gett: The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem The Look of Silence Carol Mad Max: Fury Road

Toronto Star Peter Howell View full list Star Wars: The Force Awakens Carol Son of Saul Mad Max: Fury Road Spotlight The Martian Sleeping Giant Inside Out Amy Tangerine

Total Film Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Inside Out Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sicario Ex Machina The Revenant Carol Creed It Follows The Martian

Tulsa World Michael Smith View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Revenant Sicario Spotlight Ex Machina Star Wars: The Force Awakens Bridge of Spies It Follows The Big Short (tie) Brooklyn (tie) The Diary of a Teenage Girl (tie) Room

TV Guide Staff View full list The Martian Spotlight Inside Out Steve Jobs Room Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Carol Creed Trainwreck

TwitchFilm Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Sicario (tie) The Martian (tie) Victoria Ex Machina (tie) Carol (tie) Spotlight (tie) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (tie) The Assassin (tie) It Follows

Uncut Staff consensus View full list Inherent Vice The Duke of Burgundy Love & Mercy Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Birdman While We're Young Wild Tales Beasts of No Nation Timbuktu

USA Today Brian Truitt View full list Mad Max: Fury Road all others in alphabetical order:

Black Mass

Brooklyn

Creed

The Hateful Eight

Inside Out

It Follows

The Martian

Spotlight

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Vanity Fair Richard Lawson View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Clouds of Sils Maria Spotlight Carol Ex Machina Tangerine The End of the Tour Eden Steve Jobs The Martian

Vancouver Sun Bob Thompson View full list The Big Short Star Wars: The Force Awakens Inside Out Mad Max: Fury Road Brooklyn Ant-Man Steve Jobs Shaun the Sheep Movie Spotlight Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Vancouver Weekly Michael Scoular View full list Blackhat

By the Sea

Crimson Peak

Experimenter

The Good Dinosaur

Jupiter Ascending

Mad Max: Fury Road

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Ricki and the Flash

The Visit

The Walk

Variety Andrew Barker View full list Ex Machina Creed Brooklyn Love & Mercy Inside Out Spotlight Eden The Tribe Heaven Knows What Amy Geoff Berkshire View full list Inside Out Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Anomalisa Spotlight It Follows Room White God Steve Jobs Chi-Raq Catherine Bray View full list Arabian Nights Carol Krisha Aaaaaaaah! The Look of Silence Mad Max: Fury Road Ex Machina Force Majeure A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence The Martian Justin Chang View full list The Assassin Mad Max: Fury Road Phoenix The Look of Silence Carol The Tribe Spotlight Inside Out Girlhood Brooklyn Peter Debruge View full list Son of Saul Spotlight Steve Jobs Inside Out Tangerine Above and Below Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Martian Mustang By the Sea Mon roi Maggie Lee View full list The Assassin 0.5 Mm Our Little Sister 4th Place Happy Hour The Throne Mr. Zhang Believes A Copy of My Mind Young Patriot A Simple Goodbye Joe Leydon View full list Assassination

Best of Enemies

The Big Short

The Hateful Eight

I Believe in Unicorns

Spotlight

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Steve Jobs

Trainwreck

Youth Guy Lodge View full list 45 Years Carol Mad Max: Fury Road Arabian Nights Magic Mike XXL The Demons The Lobster Victoria The Endless River Joy Alissa Simon View full list Spotlight Slow West Son of Saul Timbuktu The Diary of a Teenage Girl Amy A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Jafar Panahi's Taxi [aka Taxi Tehran] A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Inside Out Ella Taylor View full list Clouds of Sils Maria Anomalisa The Diary of a Teenage Girl Boy and the World The Assassin Bridge of Spies The Second Mother Heart of a Dog Brooklyn Mustang Jay Weissberg View full list 45 Years Carol Blood of My Blood The Assassin The Lobster Youth Francophonia Thirst Land and Shade Son of Saul

Variety/In Contention Kristopher Tapley View full list Inside Out Anomalisa Mad Max: Fury Road Amy Spotlight Steve Jobs White God The Hateful Eight Son of Saul 99 Homes

Village Voice Simon Abrams View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Mistress America Chi-Raq Maps to the Stars Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem River of Fundament Baahubali: The Beginning Clouds of Sils Maria Brooklyn Office Melissa Anderson View full list Carol Clouds of Sils Maria Phoenix Mad Max: Fury Road Saint Laurent In Jackson Heights The Assassin 45 Years The Wonders Heaven Knows What Michael Atkinson View full list The Forbidden Room The Tribe Out 1 The Assassin Anomalisa Son of Saul Carol Arabian Nights About Elly Hard to Be a God Aaron Hillis View full list Anomalisa Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence The Tribe Tangerine The Duke of Burgundy White God Girlhood Heaven Knows What Hard to Be a God Michael Nordine View full list Jauja Clouds of Sils Maria Blackhat It Follows The Wonders Mad Max: Fury Road Metalhead Brooklyn Mistress America The Tribe Nick Schager View full list Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence Phoenix Brooklyn The Assassin Hard to Be a God Spotlight Slow West James White Bone Tomahawk Alan Scherstuhl View full list Phoenix Democrats Carol In Jackson Heights Brooklyn Field Niggas The Mend The Revenant Mad Max: Fury Road The Wonders Scott Tobias View full list The Look of Silence Phoenix Carol Brooklyn The Assassin Heaven Knows What It Follows Mad Max: Fury Road The Hateful Eight Western Sam Weisberg View full list The Diary of a Teenage Girl Bridge of Spies Amy Room Famous Nathan The End of the Tour Anomalisa Spotlight Love & Mercy Ex Machina Zachary Wigon View full list Carol The Pearl Button Phoenix The Look of Silence Maps to the Stars The Assassin Clouds of Sils Maria Mississippi Grind It Follows Timbuktu Chuck Wilson View full list Son of Saul Brooklyn The Revenant The Peanuts Movie Beasts of No Nation Ex Machina Bridge of Spies Tangerine Youth 45 Years

Vogue John Powers View full list The Assassin Mad Max: Fury Road Timbuktu Anomalisa The Martian The Big Short The Walk (tie) The End of the Tour (tie) Spotlight Mustang Tangerine

Vulture Bilge Ebiri View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Timbuktu The Mend Best of Enemies Eden Heart of a Dog Saint Laurent Room Mustang Sembene! David Edelstein View full list Room The Big Short Inside Out Listen to Me Marlon Heart of a Dog Spotlight Timbuktu Experimenter Mustang Chi-raq

The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern View full list Spotlight The Big Short all others in alphabetical order:

Brooklyn

Ex Machina

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

The Martian

Room

Son of Saul

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Washington Post Ann Hornaday View full list Spotlight Love & Mercy Brooklyn Carol Ex Machina Chi-Raq Son of Saul Creed Inside Out The Martian

We Got This Covered Sam Woolf View full list The Duke of Burgundy Mad Max: Fury Road The Look of Silence Phoenix Son of Saul Spotlight Carol Inside Out Keeper A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

Wichita Eagle Rod Pocowatchit View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Creed Spotlight Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Martian Brooklyn Tangerine Ex Machina It Follows Inside Out

Wired Staff consensus View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Ex Machina Creed The Revenant Star Wars: The Force Awakens Sicario The Martian Spotlight It Follows Steve Jobs

TheWrap Alonso Duralde View full list Mad Max: Fury Road Carol Anomalisa Grandma The Tribe Son of Saul Ex Machina Clouds of Sils Maria Spotlight Brooklyn Inkoo Kang View full list Far From the Madding Crowd Son of Saul Spotlight The Diary of a Teenage Girl What We Do in the Shadows Mommy Inside Out Appropriate Behavior Mad Max: Fury Road Infinitely Polar Bear