2015 in Films
Format adapted from Charles François, who I still hope will one day rediscover his cinephilia and start hanging out with myself and the Skandies crew again. It’s been ten years since he last used it and I hereby declare it in the public domain.
Combine the first two columns for a list of films
released in 2015, and the last two columns for films seen in 2015.
Ordering is preferential when ratings are identical.
Seen Previously
Movies I saw in 2014 {or before} that were released in the U.S. in 2015.
Films not yet released but currently scheduled for this year are indicated by a (→). |
Seen in 2015
Movies I saw shortly before, during or after their 2015 U.S. run.
Asterisks (*) indicate films seen prior to their actual release. TV-only
"runs" (arbitrarily deemed eligible) get a (†). |
To Be Released
Movies I saw in 2015 which are still awaiting a U.S. release. Those known
to have lined up distribution are indicated by a (→). Production
{year} is listed if film is more than 2 years old. |
A For All Time
| The Duke of Burgundy
(Strickland) 91 |
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A- Event
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Right Now, Wrong Then
(Hong) 82 |
B+/A- Near Great
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Magic Mike XXL
(Jacobs) 81 |
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Mad Max: Fury Road
(Miller) 80 |
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B+ Must See
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*The Forbidden Room
(Maddin) 77 |
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→ The Witch: A New England Folktale
(Eggers) 75 |
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*Anomalisa
(Kaufman, Johnson) 73 |
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B/B+ Warmly Recommended
| Tu dors Nicole
(Lafleur) 71 |
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Approaching the Elephant
(Wilder) 71 |
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| Heaven Knows What
(Safdies) 70 |
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*Christmas, Again
(Poekel) 70 |
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B Recommended
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→ My Golden Days
(Desplechin) 69 |
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Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for
Freedom (Afineevsky) 69 |
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*The Overnight
(Brice) 68 |
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Our Loved Ones
(Émond) 68 |
| Clouds of Sils Maria
(Assayas) 67 |
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→ Evolution
(Hadzihalilovic) 67 |
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Bone Tomahawk
(Zahler) 67 |
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→ Green Room
(Saulnier) 67 |
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The Hateful Eight
(Tarantino) 67 |
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl
(Heller) 66 |
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Bridge of Spies
(Spielberg) 66 |
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*Far From the Madding Crowd
(Vinterberg) 66 |
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*Heart of a Dog
(Anderson) 65 |
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| The Salvation
(Levring) 65 |
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Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation
(McQuarrie) 65 |
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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
(Elkabetzes) 65 |
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→ The Lobster
(Lanthimos) 65 |
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*Yakuza Apocalypse
(Miike) 64 |
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A Month in Thailand {2012}
(Negoescu) 64 |
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*3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
(Silver) 64 |
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Eastern Boys
(Campillo) 64 |
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| Far From Men
(Oelhoffen) 64 |
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B-/B Recommended with Mild Reservations
| In the Name of My Daughter
(Téchiné) 63 |
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*What We Do in the Shadows
(Clement, Waititi) 63 |
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Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force
Awakens (Abrams) 63 |
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Jafar Panahi's Taxi
(Panahi) 63 |
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Cobain: Montage of Heck
(Morgen) 63 |
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| About Elly (Farhadi) {2009}62 |
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| The Wonders
(Rohrwacher) 62 |
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| When Evening Falls on Bucharest, or
Metabolism (Porumboiu) 62 |
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*In Jackson Heights
(Wiseman) 62 |
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*The Humbling
(Levinson) 61 |
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*The Nightmare
(Ascher) 61 |
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B- Recommended with Strong Reservations
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→ The Measure of a Man
(Brizé) 60 |
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*What We Did on Our Holiday
(Hamilton, Jenkin) 60 |
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*Mississippi Grind
(Boden, Fleck) 60 |
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*The Revenant
(G. Iñárritu) 60 |
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Predestination
(Spierigs) 60 |
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Blood of My Blood
(Bellocchio) 60 |
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→ Our Little Sister
(Kore-eda) 60 |
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*Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram
Story (Almereyda) 59 |
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*The Little Death
(Lawson) 59 |
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*Tangerines
(Urushadze) 59 |
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*Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
(Tirola) 59 |
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*Irrational Man
(Allen) 58 |
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→ Cemetery of Splendour
(Apichatpong) 58 |
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*Where to Invade Next.
(Moore) 58 |
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*5 Flights Up
(Loncraine) 58 |
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*She's Lost Control
(Marquardt) 58 |
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→ Louder Than Bombs
(Trier) 58 |
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Finders Keepers
(Carberry, Tweel) 57 |
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*Seymour: An Introduction
(Hawke) 57 |
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*Mistress America
(Baumbach) 57 |
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| Goodnight Mommy
(Franz, Fiala) 57 |
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*The Yes Men Are Revolting
(Nix, The Yes Men) 57 |
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*The D Train
(Paul, Mogel) 56 |
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| Love at First Fight
(Cailley) 56 |
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*Cartel Land
(Heineman) 56 |
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One Floor Below
(Muntean) 55 |
| Li'l Quinquin
(Dumont) 55 |
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The Wakhan Front
(Cogitore) 55 |
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*Man From Reno
(Boyle) 55 |
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*Hitchcock/Truffaut
(Jones) 55 |
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C+/B- On the Fence, Leaning Forward
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*The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the
Window and Disappeared (Herngen) 54 |
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*Call Me Lucky
(Goldthwait) 54 |
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| A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting
on Existence (Andersson) 54 |
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*A Wolf at the Door
(Coimbra) 53 |
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*Listen to Me Marlon
(Riley) 53 |
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Crimson Peak
(Del Toro) 53 |
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| The New Girlfriend
(Ozon) 53 |
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Straight Outta Compton
(Gray) 53 |
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→ Valley of Love
(Nicloux) 53 |
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Unfriended
(Gabriadze) 52 |
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*Arabian Nights: Volume Three, The
Enchanted One (Gomes) 52 |
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*The Second Mother
(Muylaert) 52 |
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*Félix & Meira
(Giroux) 52 |
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*Kumiko the Treasure Hunter
(Zellner) 52 |
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Les cowboys (Bidegain) 52 |
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*Queen & Country
(Boorman) 52 |
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| The Look of Silence
(Oppenheimer) 52 |
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C+ Take It or Leave It
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*These Final Hours
(Hilditch) 51 |
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| Spring
(Benson, Moorhead) 51 |
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*Meru
(Chin, Vasarhelyi) 51 |
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*The Summer of Sangaile
(Kavaïté) 51 |
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The Missing Girl
(Calvo) 50 |
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*Paradise Lost
(Di Stefano) 50 |
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Digging Up the Marrow
(Green) 50 |
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*Closer to the Moon
(Caranfil) 50 |
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The End of the Tour
(Ponsoldt) 50 |
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*The Connection
(Jimenez) 50 |
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| Beloved Sisters
(Graf) 50 |
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Tale of Tales
(Garrone) 49 |
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*Accidental Love
(Greene) 49 |
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| Two Shots Fired
(Rejtman) 49 |
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*Welcome to Me
(Piven) 49 |
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*Our Brand Is Crisis
(Green) 49 |
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Ricki and The Flash
(Demme) 49 |
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*Little Accidents
(Colangelo) 49 |
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| Saint Laurent
(Bonello) 49 |
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*Digging for Fire
(Swanberg) 48 |
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The Treasure
(Porumboiu) 48 |
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→ Chevalier
(Tsangari) 48 |
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*10,000 KM
(Marquet-Marcet) 48 |
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*Cymbeline
(Almereyda) 48 |
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*Futuro Beach
(Aïnouz) 47 |
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→ Mountains May Depart
(Jia) 47 |
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*The Russian Woodpecker
(Gracia) 47 |
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→ Maggie's Plan
(Miller) 47 |
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Testament of Youth
(Kent) 47 |
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Ingrid Bergman - In Her Own Words
(Björkman) 46 |
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The Hunting Ground
(Dick) 46 |
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Danny Collins
(Fogelman) 46 |
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*Live From New York!
(Nguyen) 46 |
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C/C+ On the Fence, Leaning Backward
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*Echoes of War
(Senes) 45 |
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*Stinking Heaven
(Silver) 45 |
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Terminator Genisys
(Taylor) 45 |
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Misunderstood
(Argento) 45 |
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*Z for Zachariah
(Zobel) 44 |
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→ In the Shadow of Women
(Garrel) 44 |
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→ Bleak Street
(Ripstein) 44 |
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*Human Capital
(Virzì) 44 |
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*People Places Things
(Strouse) 44 |
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*Victor Frankenstein
(McGuigan) 44 |
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*The Film Critic
(Guerschuny) 44 |
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Marguerite & Julien
(Donzelli) 44 |
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*The 11th Hour
(Morgenthaler) 43 |
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→ Sunset Song
(Davies) 43 |
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*The Kindergarten Teacher
(Lapid) 43 |
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*Alex of Venice
(Messina) 43 |
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*Marie's Story
(Améris) 43 |
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*Madame Bovary
(Barthes) 43 |
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| Tom at the Farm
(Dolan) 43 |
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C Pass
| While We're Young
(Baumbach) 42 |
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A Walk in the Woods
(Kwapis) 42 |
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*Arabian Nights: Volume Two, The
Desolate One (Gomes) 41 |
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| The Nightingale
(Muyl) 41 |
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*Unexpected
(K. Swanberg) 41 |
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*Concussion
(Landesman) 40 |
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*Dirty Weekend
(LaBute) 40 |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
(Lawrence) 40 |
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*Growing Up and Other Lies
(Grodsky, Jacobs) 40 |
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*Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
(Roache-Turner) 40 |
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*Song One
(Barker-Froyland) 40 |
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*Hungry Hearts
(Costanzo) 40 |
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*Strangerland
(Farrant) 39 |
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| The Princess of France
(Piñeiro) 39 |
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*Kill Me Three Times
(Stenders) 37 |
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→ The Sea of Trees
(Van Sant) 37 |
C- Ugh
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*The Riot Club
(Scherfig) 36 |
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*All the Wilderness
(Johnson) 36 |
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| Maps to the Stars
(Cronenberg) 35 |
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He Named Me Malala
(Guggenheim) 34 |
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Arabian Nights: Volume One, The
Restless One (Gomes) 33 |
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*An Open Secret
(Berg) 33 |
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| Time out of Mind
(Moverman) 33 |
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Queen of Earth
(Perry) 32 |
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*Still Life
(Pasolini) 32 |
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D+ Double-Ugh
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*In Stereo
(Rodriguez) 26 |
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*Broken Horses
(Chopra) 25 |
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Hard to Be a God
(German) 24 |
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Journey to the Shore
(Kurosawa) 22 |
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→ No Home Movie
(Akerman) 21 |
D Bomb
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Enter the Dangerous Mind
(Delara, Teran) 17 |
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*Home Sweet Hell
(Burns) 12 |
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F Burn the Negative
Walk-outs Channel Surfing
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The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the
Revolution (Nelson) |
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Boy and the World (Abreu) |
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*The Creation of Meaning
(Rapisarda Casanova) |
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Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's
Lost Rock & Roll (Pirozzi) |
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→ Embrace of the Serpent
(Guerra) |
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Everybody in Our Family {2012}
(Jude) |
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Fort Tilden (Bliss, Rogers) |
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| Gangs of Wasseypur
(Kashyap) {2012} |
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I Believe in Unicorns
(Meyerhoff) |
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I'll See You in My Dreams
(Haley) |
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Infinitely Polar Bear
(Forbes) |
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*The Japanese Dog
(Jurgiu) |
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K
(Ap Richard, Erdenibulag) |
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Land and Shade
(Augusto Acevedo) |
| The Lesson (Grozeva,
Valchanov) |
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Lost and Beautiful
(Marcello) |
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
(Gomez-Rejon) |
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| Meet Me in Montenegro
(Holdridge, Saasen) |
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My Skinny Sister
(Lenken) |
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→ The Other Side
(Minervini) |
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The Peanuts Movie (Martino) |
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Revenge of the Mekons
(Angio) |
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Shaun The Sheep Movie
(Burton, Starzak) |
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Sleeping With Other People
(Headland) |
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Something, Anything
(Harrill) |
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| Songs From the North
(Yoo) |
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania
(Beckwith) |
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→ The Strongest Man
(Riches) |
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Take Me to the River
(Sobel) |
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T(error) (Cabral, Sutcliffe) |
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Thursday Till Sunday {2012}
(Sotomayor) |
| The Tribe
(Slaboshpytskiy) |
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Incomplete Mishap/Bad Timing
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Southbound
(Various) [emergency phone call informing me that someone
had broken into my house] |
