Year-End Lists

Orwell: 2+2=5

• 4 The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post
• 6 Best Films of 2025: Noel Hess: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 8 10 Best Films of 2025: Anita Katz: Bay City News
• 8 Top 10 Films of 2025: Michael Phillips: Filmspotting
• 13 Best Films of 2025: Joseph Fahim: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 15 The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• 15 Best Films of 2025: Jamsheed Akrami: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 15 Best Films of 2025: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 97 Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• Best Films of 2025: Lovia Gyarkye: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Stephanie Zacharek: Time Honorable mention
• Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Other movies that I liked and urge you to see

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

• 7 Best Films of 2024: Geoff Andrew: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 14 Best Films of 2024: Jonathan Romney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 15 Best Films of 2024: Victor Guimarães: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 16 Best Films of 2024: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 20 Best Films of 2024: Jean-Michel Frodon: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

• Best Films of 2024: Jonathan Ali: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The 12 Best Documentaries of 2024: Noel Murray: Polygon
• Best Movies of 2024: Jake Coyle: AP Also
• Best Movies of 2024: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Also recommended

Silver Dollar Road

• Top Ten Films of 2023: Brian Darr: Senses of Cinema: Senses of Cinema World Poll

Exterminate All the Brutes

• 3 Best Films of 2021: J. Hoberman: Artforum
• 4 The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Judy Berman: Time
• 4 Best TV Shows of 2021: Daniel D’Addario: Variety
• 5 The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Daniel Fienberg: Hollywood Reporter
• 18 The 25 Best TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2021: The Playlist
• 25 The Best Movies of 2021: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 42 My Favourite Films of 2021: Scout Tafoya

• 21 Most Underrated Movies of 2021: Cassie da Costa: Vanity Fair
• The Best TV Shows of 2021: Ben Travers: IndieWire The Alternative 10
• Best of TV 2021: Inkoo Kang: Washington Post Honorable mention

The Young Karl Marx

• 8 Favorite Films of 2017: Scout Tafoya

• Best Films of 2018: Glenn Kenny And so on

I Am Not Your Negro

• 1 Best Films of 2016: Jason Bailey: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 2 The Best Films of 2017: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
• 2 Best Films of 2016: B. Ruby Rich: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2016: Alan Zilberman: RogerEbert.com
• 4 21 Best Movies of 2017: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• 4 Top 10 Movies of 2016: Jake Coyle: AP
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Mike Rubin: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Michael Tully: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Top 30 Movies of 2017: Ed Gonzalez
• 5 10 Best Films of 2016: Amy Taubin: Artforum
• 5 19 Best Films of 2016: Todd McCarthy: Hollywood Reporter
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Sam Adams: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Jeremy Smith: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Jared Mobarak: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Yehudit Mam: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2016: Danny Bowes: RogerEbert.com
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Ren Jender: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Ty Burr: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 6 28 Best Movies of 2016: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• 7 Top 10 Movies of 2016: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 7 Best Films of 2016: David Ansen: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2016: John Powers: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2016: Pat Mullen: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2016: Godfrey Cheshire: RogerEbert.com
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2016: Odie Henderson: RogerEbert.com
• 8 Top 25 Movies of 2016: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
• 8 Best Films of 2016: Emanuel Levy: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2016: Jason Shawhan: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2016: Lisa Kennedy: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 9 20 Best Films of 2016: Steve Erickson: GCN
• 9 Best Films of 2016: Hunter Harris: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2016: Stephen Farber: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 11 The Best Films of 2016: Noel Murray: A.V. Club
• 14 20 Best Movies of 2016: Bilge Ebiri: Village Voice
• 14 Best Movies of 2016: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 15 50 Best Films of 2017: Slant
• 19 Top 26 Films of 2017: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 19 50 Top Films of 2017: Guardian
• 19 25 Best Films of 2016: Matt Prigge: Metro
• 21 Top 50 Films of 2016: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 26 30 Best Films of 2017: Little White Lies
• 31 Top 50 Films of 2016: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 41 The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s: Rolling Stone

• Best Films of 2017: Sophia Nguyen: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Lara Zarum: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Peter Labuza: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2016: Robert Abele: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2016: Cynthia Fuchs: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2016: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
• Top 15 Movies of 2016: Dana Stevens: Slate 11-15 Runners-Up, in alphabetical order
• Best Films of 2017: Glenn Heath Jr.: San Diego CityBeat Honorable mention
• 26 Best Movies of 2016: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post “…had I not been constrained by numerical obstinacy”
• Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles
• 40 Best Movies of 2017: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Other Favorites
• 63 Best Films of 2017: Glenn Kenny First Tier Honorable Mentions