World’s Movie Critics Name Best Film Of 2015

Ben Arnold
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Movie critics from around the world have been polled on their best movie of 2015, but chances are you’ve not seen it yet - and possibly not heard of it.

‘The Assassin’ has topped the list, a martial arts drama directed by Taiwanese helmsman Hou Hsiao-Hsien (you can check out the trailer below).

It was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, where Hsiao-Hsien won the gong for best director, and it’s been selected as the Taiwanese entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars next year.

But it will not be released in the UK until January, 2016.

The annual poll was conducted by the British Film Institute, and pulled in the opinions of 168 critics from around the world.

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Second on the list is the acclaimed drama 'Carol’, also likely to feature at the Oscars this year, and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Third is 'Mad Max: Fury Road’, fourth is Portuguese-produced drama 'Arabian Nights’, and fifth is 'Cemetery of Splendour’, a Thai movie about an epidemic of sleeping sickness.

Here’s the top 20 in full:

1. The Assassin
2. Carol
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Arabian Nights
5. Cemetery of Splendour
6. No Home Movie
7. 45 Years
8. Son of Saul
9. Amy
10. Inherent Vice
11. Anomalisa
12. It Follows
13. Phoenix
14. Girlhood
15. Hard To Be A God
16. Inside Out
17. Tangerine
18. Taxi Tehran
19. Horse Money
20. The Look of Silence

Last year, Richard Linklater’s Oscar-winning 'Boyhood’ won the critics over in the BFI list.

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