These are the best new release (or VOD) titles, out of the 456 films and TV series that I watched over the last year.
Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015)
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, 2015)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2015)
Best of Enemies (Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville, 2015)
Blackhat (Michael Mann, 2015)
The Black Panthers (Stanley Nelson, 2015)
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015)
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman, 2015)
Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015)
Dark Star: H. R. Giger’s World (Belinda Sallin, 2014)
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland, 2014)
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Douglas Tirola, 2015)
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Mark Hartley, 2014)
Entertainment (Rick Alverson, 2015)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, 2015)
Hard to Be a God (Alexei German, 2013)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso, 2014)
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgen, 2015)
Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley, 2015)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2014)
Lost Souls: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (David Gregory, 2014)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman, 2014)
The Nightmare (Rodney Ascher, 2015)
The Otherworld (Richard Stanley, 2013)
Phoenix (Christian Petzold, 2015)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015)
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara, 2014)
