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      • Nasty Baby
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      • Nymphomaniac Volume 1
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      • Olympus Has Fallen
      • On Body and Soul
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      • Pacific Rim
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      • Queen of Earth
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      • Rise of the Planet of the Apes
      • Roman J. Israel, Esq.
      • Romantics Anonymous
      • Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno
      • Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends
      • Rush
      • Rust And Bone
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      • Safe
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      • Saint Amour
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      • Samsara
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      • Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World
      • Selma
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      • Summer In February
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      • Taken 2
      • Taking Off
      • Tales from Earthsea
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      • Testament of Youth
      • Tetsuo: The Iron Man
      • That Awkward Moment
      • Therese Desqueyroux
      • They Came Together
      • Things to Come
      • This Is The End
      • Thor: The Dark World
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      • Three Christs
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      • Tiny Furniture
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      • Total Recall
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      • Transit
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      • Trespass Against Us
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      • Tron: Legacy
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      • Tumbbad
      • Two Lovers and a Bear
    • THE >
      • The Amateurs
      • The Arbor
      • The Assault
      • The Autopsy of Jane Doe
      • The Avengers
      • The Awakening
      • The Baader-Meinhof Complex
      • The Bacchus Lady
      • The Bad Batch
      • The Ballad of Narayama
      • The Bar
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      • The Be All And End All
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      • The Beloved
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      • The Brawler
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      • The Cat Returns
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      • The Devil's Double
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      • The Dinosaur Project
      • The Doom Generation
      • The Drummond Will
      • The Dyatlov Pass Incident
      • The East
      • The Edge of Seventeen
      • The Evil in Us
      • The Expendables 3
      • The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
      • The Fake
      • The Family Fang
      • The Farewell
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      • The Fighter
      • The Five Year Engagement
      • The Front Runner
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      • The Good Dinosaur
      • The Grand Heist
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      • The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
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      • The Gunman
      • The Hateful Eight
      • The Heiresses
      • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
      • The House That Jack Built
      • The Housemaid
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      • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
      • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
      • The Hunter
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      • The Incredible Jessica James
      • The Informer
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      • The Killer Inside Me
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      • The Legend of Bruce Lee
      • The Lighthouse
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      • The Lives of Others
      • The Lone Ranger
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      • The Man from Nowhere
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      • The Mercy
      • The Mind's Eye
      • The Miseducation of Cameron Post
      • The Mist
      • The Molly Dineen Collection Volume Three
      • The Motive
      • The Mule
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      • The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman
      • The Nice Guys
      • The Nightingale
      • The Numbers Station
      • The Other Side of Hope
      • The Overnight
      • The Panic in Needle Park
      • The Party
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      • The Purge: Anarchy
      • The Raid
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      • The Railway Man
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      • The Secret in Their Eyes
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      • The Thing
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      • The Two Faces Of January
      • The Truth
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      • The Walking Dead season two
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      • The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
      • The Woman in the Fifth
      • The World of Kanako
      • The World's End
      • The Yellow Sea
      • The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet
    • U >
      • Unbeatable
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    • V >
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      • Waitress
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      • We Steal Secrets: The Story Of Wikileaks
      • Weekend
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      • Who We Are Now
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      • Yardie
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    • Z >
      • Zathura
  • THEATRE & ARTS
    • A Walk On Part: The Fall Of New Labour
    • Akram Khan: Homeland
    • All New People
    • Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn in Conversation
    • Battle Angel Alita: volume 1
    • Battle Angel Alita: volumes 2, 3 & 4
    • Battle Angel Alita: volumes 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9
    • Brian Wilson
    • Cantina
    • Derren Brown - Svengali
    • Fourth Dimensional Minds Eye Summoning
    • Gilbert & George
    • Jumpy
    • Let The Right One In
    • Lisa Appignanesi
    • Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
    • My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
    • Othello: The Remix
    • Philip Pullman
    • Posh
    • Rob Delaney
    • Ronin
    • Sunken Garden
    • Sutra
    • The Book Of Mormon
    • The Great Gatsby
    • The Master And Margarita
    • The Silver Linings Playbook
    • The Thinking Drinker's Guide To Alcohol
    • Thriller Live
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    • Wild Swans
  • FEATURES-INTERVIEWS
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    • Ang Lee: A Life In Pictures
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    • BBC 4 World Cinema Award 2006
    • Berlin Film Festival 2011: Part One
    • Berlin Film Festival 2011: Part Two
    • Berlin Film Festival 2011: Part Three
    • Berlin Film Festival 2012: Part One
    • Berlin Film Festival 2012: Part Two
    • Berlin Film Festival 2012: Part Three
    • Best Films of 2013
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    • Best Films of 2018
    • Best Films of 2019
    • Best Films of 2020
    • Busan eFM
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    • Edinburgh Film Festival 2010
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    • Favourite Films of 2014
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10 January 2016

This article is a look at my favourite films of 2015.

By Hemanth Kissoon
Part one, the worst films of 2015, can be read here.
 
From the low-water mark to my favourites...
MY TOP 25 FAVOURITE FILMS OF 2015

​25. EX MACHINA

Ex Machina
​Inventive, sexy and stylish sci-fi cinema is extremely rare.

​24. THE BOY AND THE BEAST

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Has director Mamoru Hosoda inherited the animation crown from the now retired Hayao Miyazaki? This is his equivalent of THE JUNGLE BOOK.

[To read the full review, click here.]

​23. DEMOLITION

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Did director Jean-Marc Vallée suddenly take a filmmaking pill? He has moved from overrated prestige pics (WILD, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, etc.) to deliver something compelling. A winning hotchpotch of tones – dread/pathos/humour – means second-guessing the movie is difficult.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

​22. A BIGGER SPLASH

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Give Ralph Fiennes the best supporting actor Oscar already. Sex and violence as release are the undercurrents lapping below the surface of a holiday sojourn.

[To read the full review, click here.]

​21. WILD TALES

Wild Tales
Hilarious short films tied together by the theme of vengeance.

​20. GUILTY

Guilty
An Indian MEMORIES OF MURDER. Irrfan Khan as Serpico.

​19. SLOW WEST

Slow West
The title is a misnomer. Fans of the Western are sated with the play on genre tropes.

18. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE

Dear White People
Witty, intelligent comedy set at a university.

​17. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

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Director Christopher McQuarrie wisely opts not to compete with the previous film's pinnacle Burj Khalifa sequence and instead ups the corporeal stakes. Violence on the verge of erupting hangs in the air.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

16. THE DAUGHTER

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Similar to television show ‘Breaking Bad’, THE DAUGHTER’s myriad of tragedies is a complicated array of cause and effect. Superbly calibrated drama.

[To read the full review, click here.]

15. MY GREAT NIGHT

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A madcap New Year’s Eve TV show party, recorded in summer, is so unbelievably fun, as energetic as a 1930s screwball comedy. Egomania as war. An entire movie equivalent of the opening scene of INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

14. OUR LITTLE SISTER

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Gentle pace and quiet observations ostensibly hint at an arduous 128-minutes. Not so, there is a heady humanism on display, and humour, celebrating aspirational qualities – forgiveness, self-awareness and sacrifice.

[To read the full review, click here.]

​13. THE HATEFUL EIGHT

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Writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s three hour Western is a return to RESERVOIR DOGS - a mesmerising use of confined space, dialogue and violence.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

12. TOP FIVE

Top Five
Now this is how you make a romantic-comedy: By making the romance subtler and upping the humour.

11. SICARIO

Sicario
An entire film of war on drugs collateral damage. My kind of action movie:
- morally ambiguous
- achingly stylish
- palpable sense of dread
- something to say about the world
- ethnic diverse cast
- kick ass female and male leads (Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro)
- pessimism with glimmers of hope

​10. DHEEPAN

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DHEEPAN, like the main protagonist, is geared to stay ahead of its audience. The play with expectation, as the story unfurls, is deft. Artists at the top of their game.

[To read the full review, click here.]

9. TAXI

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Narratively dense, politically engaging and emotionally powerful.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

​8. INSIDE OUT

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An adventure set in the mind, peak Pixar-style. An animated film up there with the inventive and wrenching ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

​7. TRUMAN

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It is rare to say a film about looming death is a lovely experience. TRUMAN joins MY LIFE WITHOUT ME as a moving exercise in a house being put in order.

[To read the full review, click here.]

6. HWAYI: A MONSTER BOY

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Worth the 10 year wait, from the director of SAVE THE GREEN PLANET!. A family crime thriller as merciless as ANIMAL KINGDOM.

​5. KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE

Kingsman
Shreds the espionage action rule book. Witnessing Colin Firth kick ass is unadulterated joy. *Must get myself a double-breasted suit*

​4. SON OF SAUL

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Excluding documentaries, SON OF SAUL is the greatest film I have seen about the Holocaust. Unrelentingly paced and pulse-hammering.

[To read the full review, click here.]

​3. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

Mad Max Fury Road
It was worth the 30-year wait. Vehicular mayhem on an unpredicted scale. If you’re going to make an environmental and sociological parable, do it exhilaratingly.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

​2. VICTORIA

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Emotional equivalence of a fizzy soft drink bottle being shaken and suddenly opened is the euphoria felt as the closing credits scrawled. For two hours 14 minutes the camera never stops. A single take. No edits. Delay, anticipation, delivery, pay-off – VICTORIA joins ALIENS and DIE HARD for pure distillation of that concept.

[To read the full review, click here.]

​1. THE REVENANT

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THE REVENANT comes along and grabs you by the lapels, looks you square in the eye, before punching you in the stomach, and somehow leaves you with an ecstatic smile across your face. Leonardo DiCaprio vs Tom Hardy vs nature vs karma. A remarkably realised, ferocious Western.
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[To read the full review, click here.]

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​And now from my favourites, to the awards for the best. Click here.

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