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The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia

  • Cate Blanchett in Carol … Guardian readers’ No 1 film of the year

    The best films of 2015: Guardian readers' choice

  • Asif Kapadia: ‘The meaning of the music is deeper now. It’s not just pop music, which is what we all thought.’

    Amy director Asif Kapadia: ‘When you look at it now, she was a kid doing stupid things’

  • Bridge of Spies

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia: No 1 – Bridge of Spies

    Concluding our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year, we salute Steven Spielberg’s ode to the real-life cold war lawyer who defended a Soviet spy
  • The Look Of Silence
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    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia – No 2: The Look of Silence

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year, we’re still haunted by Joshua Oppenheimer’s chilling companion piece to The Act of Killing
  • Amy

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia: No 3 – Amy

    It would be easy to spin the Amy Winehouse story as that of a ruined starlet, but this documentary gives us a more interesting one – of a woman who reacted to extreme pressure by trying to vanish
  • Leviathan

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia – No 4: Leviathan

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year: a booze-fuelled Russian epic which had officials at the Kremlin steaming
  • Inherent Vice

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia – No 5: Inherent Vice

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year: Joaquin Phoenix’s pothead private eye lurches between a wild bunch of star cameos in Paul Thomas Anderson’s hugely enjoyable Pynchon crime caper
  • Joy

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia: No 6 – Joy

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year, we get ourselves in a lather about another electrifying Jennifer Lawrence performance in David O Russell’s inspiring biopic
  • While We're Young

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia: No 7 – While We're Young

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year, we celebrate Noah Baumbach’s comedy about a middle-aged couple whose social life gets a jump-start from hip new friends
  • ‘Everything about the film feels intensely alive’ ... Anne Dorval in Xavier Dolan’s sparky melodrama Mommy.

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia – No 8: Mommy

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year: Xavier Dolan’s energetic ode to motherhood
  • ‘Beautifully and horribly well-observed’ ...  Kristen Wiig, Bel Powley and Alexander Skarsgard in The Diary of a Teenage Girl.

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia – No 9: The Diary of a Teenage Girl

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year: a brave and grounded coming-of-age tale boasting a star-making turn from Bel Powley
  • Salt of the Earth, a documentary by Wim Wenders

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    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia: No 10 – The Salt of the Earth

    Continuing our countdown of the best movies released in Australia this year: an extraordinary study of the photographer Sebastião Salgado, made by his son – and Wim Wenders
  • Clockwise from top left: The Book of Life, Youth, Macbeth, Top Five

    The 50 best films of 2015 in Australia: the full list

  • Daniel Craig in Spectre; Matt Damon in The Martian; Cate Blanchett in Carol; and Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Tehran.

    Which are your favourite films of 2015?

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