Mad Max: Fury Road Voted Best Film Of Year By International Film Critics

While audiences and critics don't often agree, just about everyone seems to love Mad Max: Fury Road.

The film, a long-awaited follow-up to director George Miller's Mad Max trilogy, came earlier this year without much in the way of expectations, and turned out to be a massive favorite.

And now, Mad Max: Fury Road is the best film of the year, as chosen by the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci).

Miller beat out three other finalists for the best film honor, according to THR: Laszlo Nemes' Son Of Saul, Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin and Jafar Panahi's Taxi.

The 2015 Fipresci best film award was selected by 493 international film critics, from films which had their premiere after July 1, 2014.

"You could have knocked me over with a feather!," said Miller. "It's lovely to have this great cohort of critics acknowledge our collective labors in this way."

The film is available on streaming video services now.