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Best Movies of 2015, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
73 films from 2015 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Mad Max: Fury Road ('2015), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Longest Ride, 7.0 on IMDb against 33 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mad Max: Fury Road '2015 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.1 | 97% | 90 | 7.6 | George Miller |
| 2 | Inside Out '2015 | Animation / Drama / Comedy | 8.1 | 98% | 94 | 7.9 | Pete Docter |
| 3 | The Martian '2015 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 8.0 | 91% | 80 | 7.7 | Ridley Scott |
| 4 | The Revenant '2015 | Western / Drama | 8.0 | 78% | 76 | 7.5 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu |
| 5 | Spotlight '2015 | Drama | 8.1 | 97% | 93 | 7.8 | Tom McCarthy |
| 6 | Room '2015 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 93% | 86 | 8.0 | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 7 | The Hateful Eight '2015 | Drama / Mystery / Western | 7.8 | 74% | 68 | 7.8 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 8 | Star Wars: The Force Awakens '2015 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 93% | 80 | 7.2 | J.J. Abrams |
| 9 | The Big Short '2015 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 89% | 81 | 7.4 | Adam McKay |
| 10 | Kingsman: The Secret Service '2015 | Crime / Comedy / Action | 7.7 | 75% | 60 | 7.6 | Matthew Vaughn |
| 11 | Ex Machina '2015 | Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.7 | 92% | 78 | 7.6 | Alex Garland |
| 12 | Sicario '2015 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.7 | 91% | 82 | 7.4 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 13 | Straight Outta Compton '2015 | Drama / Musical | 7.8 | 89% | 72 | 7.8 | F. Gary Gray |
| 14 | Bridge of Spies '2015 | Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 81 | 7.2 | Steven Spielberg |
| 15 | Creed '2015 | Drama | 7.6 | 95% | 82 | 7.4 | Ryan Coogler |
| 16 | Avengers: Age of Ultron '2015 | Action / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 75% | 66 | 7.3 | Joss Whedon |
| 17 | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation '2015 | Action | 7.4 | 94% | 75 | 7.2 | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 18 | Ant-Man '2015 | Sci-Fi / Action | 7.2 | 83% | 64 | 7.1 | Peyton Reed |
| 19 | Brooklyn '2015 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 97% | 88 | 7.3 | John Crowley |
| 20 | Southpaw '2015 | Action / Drama | 7.3 | 59% | 57 | 7.4 | Antoine Fuqua |
| 21 | The Man from U.N.C.L.E. '2015 | Comedy / Action | 7.2 | 68% | 56 | 7.1 | Guy Ritchie |
| 22 | Carol '2015 | Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 94% | 94 | 7.5 | Todd Haynes |
| 23 | The Age of Adaline '2015 | Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 7.2 | 54% | 51 | 7.5 | Lee Toland Krieger |
| 24 | Furious 7 '2015 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.1 | 81% | 67 | 7.2 | James Wan |
| 25 | The Walk '2015 | Drama | 7.3 | 83% | 70 | 7.0 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 26 | Steve Jobs '2015 | Drama | 7.2 | 85% | 82 | 6.8 | Danny Boyle |
| 27 | The Lobster '2015 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 87% | 82 | 7.0 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 28 | The Intern '2015 | Comedy | 7.1 | 59% | 51 | 7.2 | Nancy Meyers |
| 29 | Everest '2015 | Drama | 7.1 | 73% | 64 | 6.8 | Baltasar Kormákur |
| 30 | The Danish Girl '2015 | Drama | 7.1 | 66% | 66 | 7.5 | Tom Hooper |
| 31 | Spy '2015 | Action / Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 94% | 75 | 6.8 | Paul Feig |
| 32 | The Gift '2015 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 7.0 | 92% | 77 | 6.7 | Joel Edgerton |
| 33 | Jurassic World '2015 | Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.9 | 72% | 59 | 6.7 | Colin Trevorrow |
| 34 | The Longest Ride '2015 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 31% | 33 | 7.6 | George Tillman Jr. |
| 35 | Legend '2015 | Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 60% | 55 | 7.0 | Brian Helgeland |
| 36 | Cinderella '2015 | Romance / Fantasy / Drama | 6.9 | 83% | 67 | 6.8 | Kenneth Branagh |
| 37 | In the Heart of the Sea '2015 | Thriller / Drama / Action | 6.9 | 42% | 47 | 6.8 | Ron Howard |
| 38 | Black Mass '2015 | Drama / Crime | 6.8 | 74% | 68 | 6.5 | Scott Cooper |
| 39 | Chappie '2015 | Crime / Action / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 32% | 41 | 6.8 | Neill Blomkamp |
| 40 | It Follows '2015 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 95% | 83 | 6.6 | David Robert Mitchell |
| 41 | Spectre '2015 | Action / Thriller | 6.8 | 63% | 60 | 6.6 | Sam Mendes |
| 42 | The Good Dinosaur '2015 | Animation | 6.7 | 76% | 66 | 6.8 | Peter Sohn |
| 43 | Run All Night '2015 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 6.6 | 59% | 59 | 6.4 | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| 44 | Burnt '2015 | Drama | 6.6 | 29% | 42 | 6.5 | John Wells |
| 45 | Joy '2015 | Drama | 6.6 | 61% | 56 | 6.6 | David O. Russell |
| 46 | Hotel Transylvania 2 '2015 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.6 | 58% | 44 | 6.8 | Genndy Tartakovsky |
| 47 | Self/less '2015 | Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller | 6.5 | 18% | 34 | 6.4 | Tarsem Singh |
| 48 | Home '2015 | Fantasy / Comedy / Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 53% | 55 | 6.8 | Tim Johnson |
| 49 | Focus '2015 | Romance / Comedy / Crime | 6.6 | - | 56 | 6.9 | Glenn Ficarra |
| 50 | The DUFF '2015 | Romance / Comedy | 6.4 | 72% | 56 | 6.8 | Ari Sandel |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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