Best Movies of 2015
Ranked by our critic's grades, best first.
The Hateful EightTarantino locks eight liars in one room and shoots it like a landscape.Read the review
SicarioDeakins and Johannsson turn a stalled border convoy into the most frightening traffic jam on film.
The Big ShortThe rare finance movie that trusts you to follow the math, then flatters you a little too hard for keeping up.
The RevenantA brutal ordeal shot like a nature documentary from hell; the images outrun the story.
Steve JobsThree product launches, three arguments, and some of the best writing and acting of the year aimed at a man nobody can settle.
SpotlightThe least showy Best Picture winner in years, and the restraint is the entire argument.
CarolAn entire romance conducted in glances through glass, and it never once raises its voice.
Inside OutPixar builds a working model of a mind, then argues that sadness is load bearing.
RoomHalf captivity thriller and half recovery drama, and the harder half is the second one.
The MartianCompetence as entertainment, with arithmetic doing the work a weapon usually does.