Hereâs every film I saw for the first time between 1/1/15 and 12/31/15. Iâll see you at the bottom of the list for some footnotes.
Predestination (The Spiereg Brothers, 2014)
Gone Girl (David Fincher, 2014)
The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (Kathleen Collins, 1980)
Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins, 1982)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Peter Jackson, 2013)
WildLike (Frank Hall Green, 2014)
Americons (Theo Avgerinos, 2015)
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, 2014)
Riot on the Dancefloor (Steve Tozzi, 2014)
Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966)
Ginger Snaps (John Fawcett, 2000)
Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014)
La Cienaga (Lucrecia Martel, 2001)
That Guy Dick Miller (Elijah Drenner, 2014)
Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
National Scars: The Albert Pike Monuments (Jet Wintzer, 2015)
An Honest Liar (Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein, 2014)
Ejecta (Chad Archibald and Matt Wiele, 2014)
The Cobbler (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner, 2015)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke, 2015)
San Francisco International (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1970)**
Space Tracelers/Marooned (John Sturges, 1969)**
Spring (Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, 2015)
Champs (Bert Marcus, 2015)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (David Zellner, 2014)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, 1996)
Chappie (Neill Blomkamp, 2015)
Hercules (Pietro Francisi, 1958)**
Radar Secret Service (Sam Newfield, 1950)**
Serena (Susanne Bier, 2014)
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014)
Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police (Andy Grieve and Lauren Lazin, 2012)
Lambert and Stamp (James D. Cooper, 2014)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Jaco (Paul Marchand, 2015)
The Skydivers (Coleman Francis, 1963)**
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum, 2014)
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (Alex Gibney, 2015)
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates, 1973)
Do You Remember?: 15 Years of the Bouncing Souls (Jeff Alulis, 2003)
The Cure (Charlie Chaplin, 1916)
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin, 1915)
Pumping Iron (George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977)
Laugh Killer Laugh (Kamal Ahmed, 2015)
Dark Star: HR Gigerâs World (Belinda Sallin, 2014)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Anthony and Joe Russo, 2014)
Dior and I (Frederic Tcheng, 2014)
Shake the Dust (Adam Sjoberg, 2014)
Daryl Hall and John Oates: Live in Dublin (Joss Crowley, 2015)
Thor: The Dark World (Alan Taylor, 2013)
Lost River (Ryan Gosling, 2014)
Forever into Space (Greg W. Locke, 2015)
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodiaâs Lost Rock & Roll (John Pirozzi, 2014)
Linda Troeller - Inside the Frame (Jeff McKay, 2015)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (Joss Whedon, 2015)
When Things Go Wrong: Robin Lane's Story (Tim Jackson, 2015)
True Story (Rupert Goold, 2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller, 2015)
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron, 2014)
Enchantments (Kelsey OâBrien, 2015)
Every Secret Thing (Amy Berg, 2014)
Forbidden Empire/Viy (Oleg Stepchenko, 2014)
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello, 2014)
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979)
We Are Still Here (Ted Geoghegan, 2015)
Testament of Youth (James Kent, 2015)
Burying the Ex (Joe Dante, 2015)
The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, 2015)
Batkid Begins (Dana Nachman, 2015)
The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf (Philippe Mora, 1985)
Sharknado 2: The Second One (Anthony C. Ferrante, 2014)
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle, 1981)
Vanya on 42nd Street (Louis Malle, 1994)
Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (Jean Carlomusto, 2015)
A Dangerous Game (Anthony Baxter, 2014)
Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015)
The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris, 1981)
Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes, 2015)
Irrational man (Woody Allen, 2015)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (Penelope Spheeris, 1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (Penelope Spheeris, 1998)
Boulevard (Dito Montiel, 2015)
Earth vs. the Spider (Bert I. Gordon, 1958)**
I Am Chris Farley (Brent Hodge and Derik Murray, 2015)
Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, 2014)
Cooties (Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, 2014)
Grandma (Paul Weitz, 2015)
One & Two (Andrew Droz Palermo, 2015)
Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry, 2015)
A Master Builder (Jonathan Demme, 2013)
The Devilâs Carnival (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2012)
6 Years (Hannah Fidell, 2015)
Alleluia! The Devilâs Carnival (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2015)
Ant-Man (Peyton Reed, 2015)
The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney, 2015)
Lords of BSV (Maria Soccor, 2014)
Rosehill (Brigitta Wagner, 2015)
Archie's Betty (Gerald Peary, 2015)
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970)
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli, 2014)
Miami Connection (Richard Park and YK Kim, 1987)
Prophetâs Prey (Amy Berg, 2015)
The Green Inferno (Eli Roth, 2015)
Knock Knock (Eli Roth, 2015)
Above and Beyond (Roberta Grossman, 2014)
The Resurrection of Jake the Snake (Steve Yu, 2015)
Coming Home (Yimou Zhang, 2014)
Freeheld (Peter Sollett, 2015)
A Christmas Horror Story (Grant Harvey, Steve Hoban and Brett Sullivan, 2015)
Boiling Pot (Omar Ashmawey, 2015)
Truth (James Vanderbilt, 2015)
Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers (Michael A. Simpson, 1988)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015)
The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
Skyfall (Sam Mendes, 2012)
The Creeping Terror (Vic Savage, 1964)**
The Latin Explosion: A New America (Jon Alpert and Matthew OâNeill, 2015)
Bolshoi Babylon (Nick Read and Mark Franchetti, 2015)
The Hallow (Corin Hardy, 2015)
What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy (David Evans, 2015)
Man Up (Ben Palmer, 2015)
Criminal Activities (Jackie Earle Haley, 2015)
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg, 2015)
Dangerous Men (John S. Rad, 2005)
The She-Creature (Edward L. Cahn, 1956)**
Can You Dig This (Delila Vallot, 2015)
Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
Creed (Ryan Coogler, 2015)
Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny (R. Winter, 1972)
Somewhere in Time (Jeannot Szwarc, 1980)
Laura (Otto Preminger, 1944)
Bianca Del Rio's Rolodex of Hate (Matt Muir, 2015)
Martha Davis and the Motels Live at the Whisky a Go Go (Denise Faye, 2015)
Macbeth (Justin Kurzel, 2015)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams, 2015)
Diablo (Lawrence Roeck, 2015)
The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino, 2015)
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
Lazer Team  (Matt Hullum, 2016)
Wow, thatâs a lot of movies! 135 movies, to be exact, or a movie every 2.7 days, all year long. Movies marked with ** were seen for the first time in either their Mystery Science Theater 3000 or RiffTrax presentation. Also, this list of movies spans more than 100 years!
For the list of my favorite movies (as of a couple of weeks ago, anyway) click here. Iâm still playing catch-up with the yearâs big releases, so I will be updating the âbest ofâ list in early January.