The 2015 Oscar The Grouches.

          The Top 20

1. Miss Julie (Liv Ullman - Norway/Ireland/UK)                               
2. Mommy (Xavier Dolan - Canada)
3. The President (Mohsen Makhmalbaf - Georgia)
4. Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako - Mauritania)
5. The Dance Of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky - Chile)
6. The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy - Ukraine)
7. The Look Of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer - Indonesia/Denmark)
8. Phoenix (Christian Petzold - Germany)
9. Gett (Ronit Elkabetz -Israel)
10. The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq (Guillaume Nicloux - France)
11. Love (Gaspar Noé - France)
12. The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones - France/USA)
13. Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev - Russia)
14. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson - Sweden)
15. The Duke Of Burgundy (Peter Strickland - UK)
16. P'tit Quinquin (Bruno Dumont - France)
17. The Green Prince (Nadav Schirman - Israel/Germany)
18. The Falling (Carol Morley - UK)
19. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson - USA)
20. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Turkey)

2015 has been a strange year both personally and cinematically, and while there have been countless fantastic, innovative and unexpected films I haven't seen nearly as many as I could (or should) have and reviewed even fewer, work, bereavement, mental health, dwindling spare time and just plain laziness having taken precedence or got in the way. I can only apologise, hopefully in 2016 I'll be able to keep up. Overall I just want to be better. Regardless, above are my top 20. Make of them what you will, seek them out, discover, enjoy and revisit them. Until we meet again.