Top ten films of 2015

John Maguire's most enjoyable flicks of the year

Cate Blanchett in Carol which was one the films of the year

My film of the year is George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road; a blistering elegy to metal and blood, dressed in the garish garb of the summer blockbuster. There was simply nothing else like it.

The rest of the best, in no particular order:

Carol

Todd Haynes’s superbly played and deftly made meditation on love in all forms.

Brooklyn

John Crowley’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel has Saoirse Ronan delivering the performance of ...