The independent movie business always seems on the verge of collapse, and yet, every year, it generates a number of wonderful films -- both fictional and documentary -- that manage to find their way to grateful audiences.
Here are 10 of 2015's most noteworthy indie movies. Seek them out, not just because the Oscar conversation is likely to involve several of them, but because they're rewarding experiences that will refresh your movie-loving soul.
Gary Susman has been covering movies and TV for more than 25 years and has been a Moviefone columnist since 2009. He is a former senior writer at Entertainment Weekly, where he helped launch the award-winning PopWatch blog. He has written about entertainment for such outlets as Time, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, People, CNN, MSNBC, Life, The Village Voice, The Guardian, The Chicago Sun-Times, and The Boston Phoenix. He has been a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics since 1993. He is one of the authors of the 2011 book "LIFE 75 Years: The Very Best of LIFE."
