This list reflects the films I was most entertained, intrigued, excited, emotionally drawn in, and for the most part thoroughly satisfied by.

 

1. MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

2. STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS

3. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION

4. INSIDE OUT

5. THE MARTIAN

6. COP CAR

7. TANGERINE

8. EX MACHINA

9. SICARIO

10. ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL

 

Honorable mentions (films that didn’t quite make my TOP 10, but still great)

 

ANT-MAN

AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON

CREED

EVEREST

FURIOUS 7

STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

STEVE JOBS

TRAINWRECK

 

Disappointments (hopes and expectations that were sadly dashed, or perhaps never anticipated to begin with)

 

BRIDGE OF SPIES

DOPE

CHAPPIE

JURASSIC WORLD

TOMORROWLAND

TED 2

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.

 

THE WORST MOVIE OF 2015

 

FANTASTIC FOUR (even though it featured the best live action incarnation of The Thing from the original comic!)