This year wasn't the best for films when I compare it to other years. There was nothing that really stood out to me as being a future classic. That said, it makes for what is probably my most unusual list so far. 543 movies this year. A few films more than last year. Like, a handful more. Again, a frantically busy year. Went to the cinema 290 times. Saw 372 new films for the first time but only 45 older films for the first time. I also watched 125 films again that I'd seen before. Let's hope 2016 is better. I have high hopes. Ok here is my very strange list! Usual disclaimer applies.
The Best of the Best
1. The Lobster
2. An
3. 45 Years
4. The World of Kanako
5. Force Majeure
6. Phoenix
7. Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
8. The Overnight
Super Awesome Fun Times
9. Ex Machina
10. The Tribe
11. Kingsman: The Secret Service
12. Mad Max: Fury Road
13. The Witch
14. Mistress America
15. Cooties
16. The Revenant
17. Backcountry
18. The Falling
19. Goodnight Mommy
20. The Voices
Really Great
21. The Martian
22. Inside Out
23. The Walk
24. Song of the Sea
25. Haemoo
26. Spring
27. The Man for U.N.C.L.E.
28. The Duke of Burgundy
29. Magical Girl
30. 99 Homes
31. Jupiter Ascending
32. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
33. London Road
34. Spotlight
35. Mommy
36. Suffragette
37. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
38. The Diary of a Teenage Girl
39. Crimson Peak
40. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
41. The Invitation
Very Good
42. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
43. Two Shots Fired
44. Clouds of Sils Maria
45. Victoria
46. Wild Tales
47. Creed
48. Hungry Hearts
49. Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
50. The End of the Tour
51. Foxcatcher
52. Coherence
53. Two Days, One Night
54. 71
55. Jurassic World
56. Paper Towns
57. Dear White People
58. Trash
59. Don’t Tell Me The Boy Was Mad
60. Infinitely Polar Bear
61. Selma
62. Inherent Vice
63. A Little Chaos
64. Tangerine
65. The Riot Club
66. 13 Minutes
67. Still Alice
68. Chappie
69. The Spiderweb House
70. American Ultra
71. Corn Island
72. Sicario
73. While We’re Young
74. Cub
75. Love and Mercy
76. Slow West
77. Macbeth
78. Ant-man
79. The Gift
80. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
81. Louder Than Bombs
82. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s
Island of Dr. Moreau
83. Tokyo Tribe
84. Mr. Holmes
Perfectly Watchable
85. Robot Overlords
86. Dope
87. A Most Violent Year
88. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
89. The Wolfpack
90. Being 14
91. The Good Dinosaur
92. The Danish Girl
93. Everest
94. Top Five
95. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken
96. Beauty and the Beast
97. Big Game
98. Nasty Baby
99. Truth
100. The Treasure
101. The Gambler
102. Sworn Virgin
103. James White
104. Bridge of Spies
105. The Wave
106. Avengers: Age of Ultron
107. Black Sea
108. When Marnie Was There
109. Red Amnesia
110. A Royal Night Out
111. Pitch Perfect 2
112. Freeheld
113. She’s Funny That Way
114. Tehran Taxi
115. Boychoir
116. Straight Outta Compton
117. The Coffin in the Mountain
118. Focus
119. Big Eyes
120. Joy
121. Ryozu and the Seven Henchmen
122. Mississippi Grind
123. Far From the Madding Crowd
124. Little Accidents
125. Partners in Crime
126. Trainwreck
127. Cut Snake
128. Southpaw
129. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
130. San Andreas
131. Good Kill
132. The Prophet
133. The Program
134. Rosewater
135. The Theory of Everything
136. 1001 Grams
137. Testament of Youth
138. The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale
139. Heaven Knows What
140. Kill Your Friends
141. El Cinco
142. The Final Girls
143. Magic Mike XXL
144. Believe Me
145. Theeb
146. Every Secret Thing
147. Mediterranea
148. Beasts of No Nation
149. Better Living Through Chemistry
150. Faults
151. Camp X-ray
152. Z for Zachariah
153. Rudderless
154. Spy
155. Spongebob Squarepants: Sponge out of Water
156. Woman in Gold
157. Poltergeist
158. 600 Miles
159. Search Party
160. Cinderella
161. Man Up
162. The Lovers
163. Insidious 3
164. Child 44
165. Brooklyn
166. About Alex
167. Area 51
168. Sleeping with Other People
169. Blue Caprice
170. Self/less
171. Spectre
172. Bone Tomahawk
173. Looking for Grace
174. Barefoot
175. Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimention
176. Alex of Venice
177. Land and Shade
178. Life
179. White God
180. Song One
181. American Sniper
182. Far from Men
183. Dark Places
184. Legend
185. Secret in their Eyes
186. A Perfect Day
187. People Places Things
188. Citizenfour
189. Mateo
190. Burnt
191. Absolutely Anything
192. The Longest Week
193. Effie Gray
194. Pawn Sacrifice
195. The Man Who Knew Infinity
196. Manglehorn
197. One Floor Below
198. Bill
199. By The Sea
200. Results
201. The Humbling
202. Laggies
203. Ricki and the Flash
204. In the Heart of the Sea
205. Yakuza Apocalypse
206. Lucky Them
207. Queen of the Desert
208. X+Y
209. Adult Beginners
210. Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere
211. Ruben Guthrie
212. Tale of Tales
213. The Night Before
214. The Transported Refuled
215. Hidden
216. The Postman’s White Nights
217. Chronic
218. Raiders
219. Learning to Drive
Still Watchable
220. Cut Bank
221. The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
222. Stonehearst Asylum
223. True Story
224. Sisters
225. Dark Summer
226. My Golden Days
227. Turbo Kid
228. Danny Collins
229. The Nightmare
230. Strangerland
231. Shaun the Sheep
232. The Daughter
233. Youth
234. Digging Up The Marrow
235. Lost River
236. 7 Chinese Brothers
237. The Green Inferno
238. Extraterrestrial
239. The Perfect Host
240. Out of the Dark
241. The Dressmaker
242. Queen of Earth
243. Unfriended
244. Hitman: Agent 47
245. Mortdecai
246. Seventh Son
247. Wolves
248. Black Mass
249. Manny Lewis
250. Mindscape
251. Arabian Nights Vol. 1: The Restless One
252. Cymbeline
253. Playing It Cool
254. Come out and Play aka Who can kill a child
255. Burying the Ex
256. Deathgasm
257. Kid Cannabis
258. Daddy's Home
259. Miss Meadows
260. REC 4: Apocalypse
261. Cake
262. Attack on Titan
263. Maggie
264. Run All Night
265. What We Did On Our Holiday
266. Barely Lethal
267. The Book of Life
Missing Something
268. Insurgent
269. Monsters: Dark Continent
270. Leviathan
271. Final Girl
272. In Their Skin
273. The Last Five Years
274. Tomorrowland
275. 5 Flights Up
276. Monster Hunt
277. Age of Adaline
278. Fast and Furious 7
279. Dying of the Light
280. The Harvest
281. Clown
282. Chasuke’s Journey
283. Brick Mansions
284. The Last Witch Hunter
285. Minions
286. The Gunman
287. Journey to the Shore
288. The Duff
289. Taken 3
290. Ted 2
291. Boulevard
292. We Are Your Friends
293. Last Cab to Darwin
294. Coin Locker Girl
295. The Loft
296. The Boy Next Door
297. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
298. Two Night Stand
299. Terminator Genisys
300. The November Man
301. Irrational Man
302. Everly
303. Koza
304. Madame Bovary
305. Attack on Titan Part 2
306. Entourage
307. The Editor
308. The Prince
309. The Forbidden Room
310. A Walk in the Woods
311. Fantastic Four
312. Pinch
313. The Intern
314. Knock Knock
315. The Shrine
316. Home
317. The Visit
318. Holding The Man
319. Early Winter
320. Pasolini
321. Sinister 2
322. Blackhat
323. A Deadly Adoption
324. The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
325. Animal
326. Fifty Shades of Grey
327. The Gallows
328. The Liar
329. He Never Died
330. Little Boy
331. Infini
332. Vice
333. The Edge of Sanity aka Breaking at the Edge
334. Hot Pursuit
Try Harder
335. Tracers
336. Strange Magic
337. Get Hard
338. Hill of Freedom
339. Miss You Already
340. The Pyramid
341. We Are Still Here
342. The Vatican Tapes
343. Project Almanac
344. Ouija
345. The Cobbler
346. Oddball
347. Julia
348. Love the Coopers
349. Nightlight
350. Altar
351. The Man with the Iron Fists 2
352. The Longest Ride
353. Kill Me Three Times
354. Assassination Classroom
355. Hotel Transylvania 2
356. The Human Centipede 3
357. The Assassin
358. Cemetery of Splendour
359. Love
360. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Roadchip
361. Among Friends
362. Charlie’s Farm
Ew, just... No.
363. Pan
364. Nailbiter
365. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
366. Pixels
367. Stalkher
368. Under Electric Clouds
369. How To Make Love Like An Englishman
370. The Wedding Ringer
371. Aloha
