--- title: Best Movies of 2015: Mad Max Highest Ranked Overall description: Based on 45 'best movies of the year' lists. canonical: https://time.com/4163289/best-movies-of-2015-mad-max/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-29T19:46:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:09.549Z og:title: Here's the Surprising Movie Critics Liked Most in 2015 og:description: Based on 45 'best movies of the year' lists og:url: https://time.com/4163289/best-movies-of-2015-mad-max/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte662b97b0740ce57/698877178e06012fc4463ef0/mad-max-fury-road_ui9lll.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: mad-max-fury-road_UI9lll og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Surprising Movie Critics Liked Most in 2015 twitter:description: Based on 45 'best movies of the year' lists twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte662b97b0740ce57/698877178e06012fc4463ef0/mad-max-fury-road_ui9lll.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the Surprising Movie Critics Liked Most in 2015 ## Video: The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far) [Watch (HLS stream): The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/S3M25t5U.m3u8) (4:16)  _Published 2012-05-17. TIME movie critic, Richard Corliss lists his top films of the millennium (Thus Far). For the full, list go to time.com/entertainment_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 29, 2015 7:46 PM UTC  Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury RoadWarner Bros. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Dec 29, 2015 7:46 PM UTC It wouldn’t be December without lists ranking the best movies (and, well, the best [everything](http://time.com/collection/top-10-everything-of-2015/)) of the year. The [Tastebud blog](http://blog.tastebudapp.co/post/136045692404/the-ultimate-list-of-the-88-best-movies-of-2015) decided to gather data from 45 of these best movie lists to create one big, comprehensive ranking. Some of the publications represented included the New York _Times_, BuzzFeed, [TIME](http://time.com/4134913/top-10-best-movies/), ScreenCrush and Business Insider. Here’s the methodology behind the list, according to Tastebud: --- > “” --- After tallying the scores, these were the year’s top 10 most acclaimed films: 1. _Mad Max: Fury Road_ 2. _Spotlight_ 3. _Carol_ 4. _Inside Out_ 5. _Room_ 6. _Brooklyn_ 7. _The Big Short_ 8. _Ex Machina_ 9. _Anomalisa_ 10. _Sicario_ See the full list of movies — along with all 45 source publications — [at Tastebud](http://blog.tastebudapp.co/post/136045692404/the-ultimate-list-of-the-88-best-movies-of-2015). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4163289/best-movies-of-2015-mad-max/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4163289/best-movies-of-2015-mad-max/"},"headline":"Here's the Surprising Movie Critics Liked Most in 2015","datePublished":"2015-12-29T19:46:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:09.549Z","description":"Based on 45 'best movies of the year' lists","url":"https://time.com/4163289/best-movies-of-2015-mad-max/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte662b97b0740ce57/698877178e06012fc4463ef0/mad-max-fury-road_ui9lll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte662b97b0740ce57/698877178e06012fc4463ef0/mad-max-fury-road_ui9lll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"mad-max-fury-road_UI9lll","caption":"Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road","creditText":"Warner Bros.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4163289/best-movies-of-2015-mad-max/","name":"Here's the Surprising Movie Critics Liked Most in 2015"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The 10 Greatest Movies of the Millennium (Thus Far)","description":"TIME movie critic, Richard Corliss lists his top films of the millennium (Thus Far). 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