The Best Films of 2015

Note: these are based on UK release dates.

10. Jurassic World – Heaps of fun, properly scary at times; a full-blooded summer blockbuster

Best bit: The Indominus breaks free

Full review here

9. Brooklyn – Can we make sure Saoirse Ronan is cast in everything ever, please…or at the very least, her eyes?

Best bit: “We’ll have no more discussion about nylons at the dinner table!”

Full review here

8. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 – What’s that Lionsgate? A mega-budget blockbuster with intelligent allegory and a subversive ending…wow, you really weren’t kidding. 

Best bit: “Let’s try the sewers”…no, let’s definitely not.

Full review here

7. Mr. Holmes – Without knowing it, Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes by way of my late grandad.

Best bit: See above

Full review here

6. The Martian – It’s okay, everyone, Ridley Scott is back. Best use of ABBA ever.

Best bit: “Anywhere I step, I’m the first”

Full review here

5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – I love you, J. J. Abrams, and I want to have your babies.

Best bit: [SPOILER REDACTED]

Full review here

4. Mad Max: Fury Road – Crash. Bang. Wallop. Repeat until applause.

Best bit: Am I allowed to say “All of it”?

Full review here

3. Inside Out – It’s Pixar taking on The Numskulls and is every bit as amazing as that sounds.

Best bit: “Oh no, we’re an abstract!”

Full review here

2. Whiplash – Genuinely thought I’d have a heart attack in the middle of the cinema.

Best bit: He’s not really gonna play right after that cra-oh, bloody hell, he is!

Full review here

1. Ex Machina – Whoever could have predicted that removing the influence of Danny Boyle would be a good thing? Sleek, smart sci-fi where every frame shimmers.

Best bit: The gobsmacked silence during the credits.

Full review here