As another year passes, another opportunity is given to reflect back on the year of film and consider what we believe were the best films to grace our screens in 2015. For the last few years at Film Blerg, we recognise both our individual and collective voices in putting forth such a list. This task is as exciting as it is daunting when ranking the films that we loved against each other. Regardless, we happily submit Film Blerg’s Top 10 films of 2015.
1. Inside Out
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. Ex Machina
4. Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
5. Leviathan
6. CitizenFour
7. Sicario
8. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
9. The Imitation Game
10. It Follows
= Mommy (tied 10th place)
Individual Lists:
James Madden – Editor
1. Mommy
2. Dior and I
3. The Dressmaker
4. Birdman
5. Holding the Man
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
8. Big Eyes
9. Joy
10. Inside Out
Claire Robson – Assistant Editor
1. Holding the Man
2. Partisan
3. Amy
4. Ex Machina
5. Love and Mercy
6. Into the Woods
7. Wild Tales
8. Mad Max: Fury Road
9. Infinitely Polar Bear
10. The Theory of Everything
Amy Taylor – Contributor
1. Birdman
2. The Salvation
3. Sicario
4. Dior and I
5. Clouds of Sils Maria
6. Iris
7. The Crow’s Egg
8. The Look of Silence
9. Slow West
10. Trainwreck
Angus Tonkin – Contributor
1. The Imitation Game
2. CitizenFour
3. Inside Out
4. NT Live: Hamlet
5. Mad Max: Fury Road
6. Ex Machina
7. Jurassic World
8. Far from the Madding Crowd
9. What We Did On Our Holiday
10. Spectre
Ben Isbel – Contributor
1. Birdman
2. Ex Machina
3. The Assassin
4. Leviathan
5. When Marnie Was There
6. Mad Max: Fury Road
7. Slow West
8. Foxcatcher
9. The Look of Silence
10. Inside Out
Chloe Sesta Jacobs – Contributor
1. Inside Out
2. Leviathan
3. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
4. Wild
5. It Follows
6. Inherent Vice
7. Kumiko: Treasure Hunter
8. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
9. Trainwreck
10. The Interview
Chris Smith – Contributor
1. Youth
2. Inside Out
3. Leviathan
4. The Homesman
5. Kumiko: Treasure Hunter
6. Birdman
7. Wild
8. Coming Home
9. The Assassin
10. Knight of Cups
Dan Santos – Contributor
1. Inside Out
2. Birdman
3. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
4. Mommy
5. Wild Tales
6. Ex Machina
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Salt of the Earth
9. Amy
10. Sicario
David Nagle – Contributor
1. The Lobster
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. It Follows
4. Inside Out
5. Ex Machina
6. Wild Tales
7. The Gift
8. The Martian
9. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
10. Inherent Vice
Edward Curtis – Contributor
1. Sicario
2. Foxcatcher
3. Ex Machina
4. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
5. The Homesman
6. Mad Max – Fury Road
7. The Martian
8. It Follows
9. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
10. Inherent Vice
Kevin Hawkins – Contributor
1. Inside Out
2. The Crow’s Egg
3. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
4. CitizenFour
5. American Sniper
6. The Imitation Game
7. Big Eyes
8. People, Places, Things
9. Birdman
10. Banksy Does New York
Lisa Sinclair – Contributor
1. Mad Max – Fury Road
2. Ex Machina
3. Kingsman: The Secret Service
4. Mr. Holmes
5. Inside Out
6. Selma
7. The Imitation Game
8. What We Did On Our Holiday
9. Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens
10. The Avengers: Age of Ultron
Simon Storey – Contributor
1.Leviathan
2. Selma
3. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
4. CitizenFour
5. Partisan
6. Mad Max – Fury Road
7. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
8. The Blue Room
9. Sicario
10. Inside Out
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