Year-End Lists

Jake Coyle: Top 10 Movies of 2015, as published by Associated Press

1. Carol
   Todd Haynes
2. About Elly
   Asghar Farhadi
3. Phoenix
   Christian Petzold
4. Spotlight
   Tom McCarthy
5. Chi-Raq
   Spike Lee
5. 99 Homes
   Ramin Bahrani
6. Stray Dogs
   Tsai Ming-liang
7. Anomalisa
   Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
8. Creed
   Ryan Coogler
8. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
   JJ Abrams
9. 45 Years
   Andrew Haigh
10. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
    Marielle Heller
10. Testament of Youth
    James Kent

Honorable mentions

• Heart of a Dog
  Laurie Anderson
• Bridge of Spies
  Steven Spielberg
• ’71
  Yann Demange
• Mad Max: Fury Road
  George Miller
• Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
  David Zellner
• Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
  Alex Gibney
• Inside Out
  Pete Docter
• It Follows
  David Robert Mitchell
• The Salt of the Earth
  Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado