Here's Where You Can Watch the Best Films of the Year

At this point, there are nearly 80 films on our overall list of the best-reviewed films of 2015. Pulling from reviews across our Criticwire Network, we’ve also gathered more specialized lists for the year’s top documentaries and foreign-language titles.

In a movie-going world with both online streaming and occasionally limited theatrical availability, it can be daunting to try to track down these disparate titles and to stay caught up on 2015’s top films. What we’ve done below is collect links to the places, digital or otherwise, where you can watch all of these movies for yourself (or at least order them on DVD).

We’ve separated titles out into categories: In Theaters, Netflix, Amazon Prime, VOD Rental, VOD Purchase and DVD. Each film appears below once, but many can be viewed through multiple methods. We’ll update this list as new films make their way to theaters or existing ones become available on different platforms. For now, here’s your guide for viewing the best of what this year has had to offer.

In Theaters

99 Homes

dir. Ramin Bahrani

B+ / Listings

The Assassin

dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

A- / Listings



Best of Enemies

dir. Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon

A- / Listings

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

dir. Stanley Nelson

B+ / Listings



Brooklyn

dir. John Crowley

A- / Listings



Carol

dir. Todd Haynes

A- / Listings

Cartel Land

dir. Matthew Heineman

B+ / Listings



The Diary of a Teenage Girl

dir. Marielle Heller

A- / Listings



Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

dir. Douglas Tirola

B+ / Listings



Experimenter

dir. Michael Almereyda

B+ / Listings



Finders Keepers

dir. Bryan Carberry & Clay Tweel

B+ / Listings



The Forbidden Room

dir. Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson

A- / Listings



Grandma

dir. Paul Weitz

B+ / Listings



Heart of a Dog

dir. Laurie Anderson

A- / Listings



Horse Money

dir. Pedro Costa

B+ / Listings



In Jackson Heights

dir. Frederick Wiseman

B+ / Listings

James White

dir. Josh Mond

A- / Listings



Janis: Little Girl Blue

dir. Amy Berg

A- / Listings



The Kindergarten Teacher

dir. Nadav Lapid

B+ / Listings



Labyrinth of Lies

dir. Giulio Ricciarelli

B+ / Listings



Listen to Me Marlon

dir. Stevan Riley

A- / Listings



The Look of Silence

dir. Joshua Oppenheimer

A- / Listings



Meet the Patels

dir. Geeta & Ravi Patel

B+ / Listings



Mississippi Grind

dir. Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck

B+ / Listings



A Poem is a Naked Person

dir. Les Blank

B+ / Listings

Room

dir. Lenny Abrahamson

A- / Listings



The Royal Road

dir. Jenni Olson

A- / Listings



The Russian Woodpecker

dir. Chad Gracia

A- / Listings



The Second Mother

dir. Anna Muylaert

A- / Listings



Sicario

dir. Denis Villeneuve

B+ / Listings



Sleeping with Other People

dir. Leslye Headland

B+ / Listings



Spotlight

dir. Tom McCarthy

A- / Listings



Stray Dog

dir. Debra Granik

B+ / Listings



Sunshine Superman

dir. Marah Strauch

B+ / Listings

Tangerine

dir. Sean Baker

A- / Listings

Taxi

dir. Jafar Panahi

A- / Listings



(T)ERROR

dir. Lyric R. Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe

A- / Listings



The Tribe

dir. Myroslav Slaboshpytsky

A- / Listings



Victoria

dir. Sebastian Schipper

A- / Listings



We Come as Friends

dir. Hubert Sauper

B+ / Listings



Welcome to Leith

dir. Michael Beach Nichols & Christopher K. Walker

B+ / Listings

The Wonders

dir. Alice Rohrwacher

B+ / Listings



Netflix

About Elly

dir. Asghar Farhadi

A- / Link



Amour Fou

dir. Jessica Hausner

B+ / Link

Ballet 422

dir. Jody Lee Lipes

B+ / Link

Beasts of No Nation

dir. Cary Fukunaga

B+ / Listings



Call Me Lucky

dir. Bobcat Goldthwait

B+ / Link



Do I Sound Gay?

dir. David Thorpe

B+ / Link



The Duke of Burgundy

dir. Peter Strickland

B+ / Link



Faults

dir. Riley Stearns

B+ / Link



An Honest Liar

dir. Justin Weinstein & Tyler Measom

A- / Link

Iris

dir. Albert Maysles

A- / Link



Li’l Quinquin

dir. Bruno Dumont

A- / Link

Man from Reno

dir. Dave Boyle

B+ / Link



A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

dir. Roy Andersson

A- / Link



The Princess of France

dir. Matías Piñeiro

B+ / Link



La Sapienza

dir. Eugène Green

A- / Link



Seymour: An Introduction

dir. Ethan Hawke

B+ / Link



Tu dors Nicole

dir. Stéphane Lafleur

B+ / Link



What Happened, Miss Simone?

dir. Liz Garbus

B+ / Link

When Evening Falls on Bucharest, or Metabolism

dir. Corneliu Porumboiu

B+ / Link

The Wolfpack

dir. Crystal Moselle

B+ / Link





Amazon Prime

Beloved Sisters

dir. Dominik Graf

B+ / Link

Buzzard

dir. Joel Portykus

B+ / Link



Ex Machina

dir. Alex Garland

B+ / Link



Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

dir. David Zellner

B+ / Link



Of Horses and Men

dir. Benedikt Erlingsson

A- / Link

Spring

dir. Justin Benson & Aaron Scott Moorhead

B+ / Link



While We’re Young

dir. Noah Baumbach

B+ / Link

HBO GO

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

dir. Alex Gibney

A- / Link

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck

dir. Brett Morgen

A- / Link

Tales of the Grim Sleeper

dir. Nick Broomfield

A- / Link

VOD Rental

’71

dir. Yann Demange

B+ / Link



1001 Grams

dir. Bent Hamer

B+ / Link



10,000 KM

dir. Carlos Marques-Marcet

B+ / Link



Blind

dir. Eskil Vogt

A- / Link (UK only)



Dior and I

dir. Frederic Tcheng

A- / Link



Eden

dir. Mia Hansen-Løve

A- / Link



Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

dir. Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz

A- / Link



Girlhood

dir. Céline Sciamma

B+ / Link



Hard to Be a God

dir. Aleksei German

A- / Link



Human Capital

dir. Paolo Virzi

B+ / Link



I’ll See You in My Dreams

dir. Brett Haley

B+ / Link

It Follows

dir. David Robert Mitchell

A- / Link



Love & Mercy

dir. Bill Pohlad

A- / Link

Mommy

dir. Xavier Dolan

B+ / Link



Queen of Earth

dir. Alex Ross Perry

A- / Link

Red Army

dir. Gabe Polsky

B+ / Link

Saint Laurent

dir. Bertrand Bonello

B+ / Link



The Stanford Prison Experiment

dir. Kyle Patrick Alvarez

B+ / Link



Stations of the Cross

dir. Dietrich Brüggemann

B+ / Link

Timbuktu

dir. Abderrahmane Sissako

A- / Link

The Voices

dir. Marjane Satrapi

B+ / Link



Welcome to New York

dir. Abel Ferrara

B+ / Link

What We Do in the Shadows

dir. Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement

A- / Link

Wild Tales

dir. Damián Szifrón

B+ / Link



A Wolf at the Door

dir. Fernando Coimbra

B+ / Link



The Wrecking Crew

dir. Denny Tedesco

B+ / Link

VOD Purchase

Amy

dir. Asif Kapadia

A- / Link



Appropriate Behavior

dir. Desiree Akhavan

B+ / Link

Breathe

dir. Melanie Laurent

A- / Link

Clouds of Sils Maria

dir. Olivier Assayas

A- / Link



Dope

dir. Rick Famuyiwa

B+ / Link



The End of the Tour

dir. James Ponsoldt

A- / Link

Far from the Madding Crowd

dir. Thomas Vinterberg

B+ / Link



Heaven Knows What

dir. Josh & Benny Safdie

B+ / Link



The Hunting Ground

dir. Kirby Dick

B+ / Link



Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

B+ / Link

Slow West

dir. John Maclean

B+ / Link

Tom at the Farm

dir. Xavier Dolan

B+ / Link



Z for Zachariah

dir. Craig Zobel

B+ / Link

DVD



Jauja

dir. Lisandro Alonso

B+ / Link



The New Girlfriend

dir. François Ozon

B+ / Link (Region 3 only)



Phoenix

dir. Christian Petzold

A- / Link (UK only)



Queen and Country

dir. John Boorman

B+ / Link



The Salt of the Earth

dir. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado & Wim Wenders

A- / Link

For the full lists, see our collections of the best-reviewed foreign-language films, documentaries and overall independent films of 2015.

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