A strong year for cinema, I must say. With the exception of the summer it’s been veritably crammed with decent stuff to watch month on month. As usual, I missed the boat on loads. What I did catch though I liked a lot, for the most part.

Here’s my top 15 of the year, plus a list of ones I assume I’d have loved, had I seen them.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Ex Machina
3. Inside Out
4. Amy
5. Kingsman: The Secret Service
6. Whiplash
7. John Wick
8. Birdman
9. Wild
10. Avengers: Age of Ultron
11. Legend
12. The Theory of Everything
13. Far From The Madding Crowd
14. American Sniper
15. The Man From UNCLE

And some I haven’t seen/are not out yet and would, in all probability, make my list otherwise. They are:

Brooklyn
Macbeth
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl
A Most Violent Year
It Follows
The Martian
Steve Jobs
Sicario
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Victor Frankenstein
By The Sea
Beasts Of No Nation
Black Mass