Year-End Lists

Dune: Part Two

• 1 Best Films of 2024: Dash Shaw: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 The Best Movies of 2024: Amy Nicholson: Los Angeles Times
• 2 Best Films of 2024: Amanda Chen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2024: John Bleasdale: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2024: William Webb: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2024: Passerby
• 3 24 Best Movies of 2024: Decider
• 3 10 Best Films of 2024: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
• 4 100 Favorite Movies of 2024: Sean Fennessey
• 4 25 Best Movies of 2024: Consequence
• 4 The 10 Best Movies of 2024: Entertainment Weekly
• 5 The 10 Best Movies of 2024: David Sims: Atlantic
• 5 Best Films of 2024: Sam Clements: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 5 The Best Movies of 2024: Peter Debruge: Variety
• 5 Best Movies of 2024: Brian Truitt: USA Today
• 5 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Polygon
• 6 The Best Movies of 2024: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• 6 Best Movies of 2024: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 7 Best Films of 2024: Steph Green: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 7 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2024: Omar Ahmed: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2024: Mar Diestro-Dópido: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 10 The 10 Best Movies of 2024: Peter Travers: ABC News: Good Morning America
• 10 The 15 Best Films of 2024: Clarisse Loughrey: Independent
• 16 Best Films of 2024: Celia Mattison: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 16 The 20 Best Films Of 2024: The Playlist
• 17 20 Best Movies of 2024: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• 17 The 20 Best Films of 2024: Dazed
• 18 Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
• 19 Best Films of 2024: Darren Hughes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 31 The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire
• 35 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Paste
• 41 The 50 Best Films of 2024: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 43 Best Films of 2024: In Review Online

• Favorite Films from 2024: Saige Walton
• Favorite Movies of 2024: Barack Obama
• The Best 15 Films of 2024: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
• Best Films of 2024: Jamsheed Akrami: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Best Movies Of 2024: Uproxx
• Best Films of 2024: Violet Lucca: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Honorable mention
• Best Films of 2024: Ian Mantgani: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Other Impressive and Enjoyable Films
• Top 10 Movies of 2024: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune Runner-up
• Top Ten Films of 2024: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Favorite Movies of 2024: Sarah Welch-Larson Honorable mention
• The Best Films of 2024: Keith Phipps: The Reveal Honorable mention
• The 25 Best Films of 2024: Slant Runner-up

Dune

• 1 The Best Movies Of 2021: Uproxx
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Nicholas Russell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Robin Baker: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: James Mottram: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Naman Ramachandran: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 2 The Best Movies of 2021: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• 2 The 10 Best Films of 2021: David Morgan: CBS News
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Passerby
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Gavin Smith: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Matthew Taylor: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: David Thompson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 3 The Best Films of 2021: Peter Debruge: Variety
• 3 The Best Movies of 2021: Sean Fennessey: The Ringer
• 3 Best Films of 2021: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 3 Best Films of 2021: Joshua Rothkopf: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2021: Mar Diestro-Dópido: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 5 The 25 Best Films Of 2021: The Playlist
• 5 The 10 Best Films of 2021: Clarisse Loughrey: Independent
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Alex Dudok de Wit: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Leila Latif: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 6 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Guardian
• 6 Best Movies of 2021: Decider
• 6 Best Films of 2021: K.F. Watanabe: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 The 20 Best Films of 2021: Time Out London
• 7 The 10 Best Films of 2021: David Sims: Atlantic
• 8 The Best Movies of 2021: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
• 8 10 Best Movies of 2021: Peter Travers: ABC News: Good Morning America
• 8 The Best Films of 2021: Leila Latif: A.V. Club
• 8 Best Films of 2021: John Bleasdale: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2021: Charles Gant: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Leonardo Goi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Michael Leader: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Violet Lucca: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Sukhdev Sandhu: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 10 The 30 Best Films of 2021: Little White Lies
• 10 Best 20 Films of 2021: Sarah Knight Adamson
• 10 Best Films of 2021: Lou Thomas: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 12 Films of 2021: The Skinny
• 13 The 21 Best Movies of 2021: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
• 13 Best Films of 2021: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 14 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 14 The Best Films of 2021: Keith Phipps: The Reveal The Top 15
• 14 Top 50 Films of 2021: Film Stage
• 15 The Best Films of 2021: Scott Tobias: The Reveal The Top 15
• 15 Best Films of 2021: R. Emmet Sweeney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 17 Best Films of 2021: Adam Nayman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 19 Best Films of 2021: Matthew Eng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 20 20 Best Movies of 2021: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• 20 Best Films of 2021: Nick Davis: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 29 The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire
• 43 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Slant

• Best Films of 2021: C. Spencer Yeh: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• My Top 10 Movies of 2021: Maureen Ryan
• Best Movies Of 2021: Todd McCarthy: Deadline
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Screen Queens
• Best Films of 2021: James Wham: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Best Films of 2021: Economist
• Best Films of 2021: Caden Mark Gardner: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Violet Lucca: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Benoit Rouilly Runner-up
• Best Films of 2021: Jake Coyle: AP Also
• Best Movies of 2021: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Also!
• Top 25 Films of 2021: In Review Online Honorable mention
• Notable Film Releases of 2021: Glenn Kenny Honorable Films

Enemy

• 48 The 100 Best Films of the 2010s: The Playlist

Blade Runner 2049

• 1 Top 25 Movies of 2017: Consequence
• 4 12 Best Films of 2017: Anne Thompson: IndieWire
• 4 50 Best Movies of 2017: Paste
• 4 Ten Best Films of 2017: Jacob Oller: RogerEbert.com
• 4 Best Movies of 2017: Christopher Orr: Atlantic
• 4 20 Best Films of 2017: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• 6 10 Best Films of 2017: Peter Debruge: Variety
• 8 Top 10 Films of 2017: Mallory Andrews
• 8 50 Top Films of 2017: Guardian
• 9 Top 50 Movies of the 2010s: Roxana Hadadi
• 10 Top Ten Films of 2017: Allison Shoemaker: RogerEbert.com
• 12 The 2017 Jim Ridley Memorial Film Poll: Nashville Scene
• 12 Top 100 Films of the 2010s: Consequence
• 13 Best Films of 2017: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: A.V. Club
• 16 Best Movies of 2017: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 18 Top 25 Films of 2017: Michael Sicinski
• 18 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: Paste
• 20 20 Best Films of 2017: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 21 Top 50 Films of 2017: Film Stage
• 33 Best Films of 2017: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 37 100 Best Films of the 2010s: Insider
• 48 50 Best Films of 2017: Slant
• 80 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: Film School Rejects

• Top 10 Films of 2017: Mark Kermode: Observer
• Best Films of 2017: Sean Axmaker: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• The 10 Best Films of 2017: Jourdain Searles
• Best Films of 2017: Chris Evangelista: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Josh Larsen: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: David Ehrenstein: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Eric Eisenberg: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2017: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal The rest alphabetical
• Favorite Movies of 2017: NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour
• Best Films of 2017: Matt Zoller Seitz: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention
• Favorite Movies of 2017: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine Runner-up
• 63 Best Films of 2017: Glenn Kenny Second Tier Honorable Mentions

Arrival

• 1 Top Ten Films of 2016: Noah Gittell: RogerEbert.com
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2016: Jana Monji: RogerEbert.com
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Annlee Ellingson: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2016: Collin Souter: RogerEbert.com
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Kyle Smith: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Rob Hunter: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Yair Raveh: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 35 Best Movies of 2016: Christopher Orr: Atlantic
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Chris Knight: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Jason Shawhan: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Neil Miller: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2016: Stephen Farber: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2016: Edward Douglas: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 3 The Best Films of 2016: Katie Rife: A.V. Club
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2016: Leah Pickett: Chicago Reader
• 3 Top 10 Movies of 2016: Mara Reinstein: Us Weekly
• 3 Best Films of 2016: Todd VanDerWerff: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2016: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
• 3 Best Films of 2016: Jared Mobarak: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2016: Jason Bailey: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2016: Kimber Myers: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2016: Max Covill: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2016: Drew Hunt: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 The Best Films of 2016: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 4 Best Films of 2016: David Sims: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Alec Kubas-Meyer: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Corey Craft: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Joe Neumaier: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Pat Mullen: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Peter Howell: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Mark Keizer: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Top 10 Movies of the 2010s: Chris Ryan: The Ringer: The Big Picture
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Michael Nordine: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Todd Gilchrist: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Max Weiss: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Top 15 Films of 2016: Keith Phipps
• 5 Top 10 Films of 2016: Jonathan Rosenbaum: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Alexander Huls: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Cameron Williams: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Craig Skinner: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Fico Cangiano: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Lisa Kennedy: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2016: John Keefer: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 6 10 Best Films of 2016: Anne Thompson: IndieWire
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Wade Major: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 7 20 Best Films of 2016: A.V. Club
• 7 The 25 Best Movies of 2016: Nick Schager: Esquire
• 7 Best Films of 2016: Laura Kern: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2016: Elizabeth Stoddard: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 28 Best Movies of 2016: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2016: Alan Zilberman: RogerEbert.com
• 7 Best Films of 2016: Angie Han: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2016: James Rush: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2016: Chris Evangelista: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 8 Top 50 Films of 2016: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2016: Lisa Rosman: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 8 Top 10 Movies of the 2010s: Amanda Dobbins: The Ringer: The Big Picture
• 9 Top Ten Films of 2016: Jacob Oller: RogerEbert.com
• 9 Best Films of 2016: Rania Richardson: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2016: Ryan McNeil: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2016: John Powers: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2016: Jordan Ruimy: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2016: Nathaniel Rogers: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2016: Robert Levin: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2016: Anne-Katrin Titze: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2016: Dwight Brown: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2016: Ella Taylor: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 12 20 Best Films of 2016: Uproxx
• 13 The Best Films of 2016: Noel Murray: A.V. Club
• 14 Top 50 Films of 2016: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 15 The Best Films of 2016: Mike D’Angelo: A.V. Club
• 16 Top 30 Films of the 2010s: Keith Phipps
• 19 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: Film School Rejects
• 19 The 50 Best Films of the 2010s: Far Out
• 21 The 100 Best Films of the 2010s: The Playlist
• 27 Top 50 Films of the 2010s: The Young Folks
• 30 100 Best Films of the 2010s: Insider
• 40 Top 50 Movies of the 2010s: Roxana Hadadi
• 46 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: A.V. Club

• The 10 Best Films of 2016: Jourdain Searles
• Best Films of 2016: Pete Vonder Haar: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2016: Brent Simon: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• The 10 Best Films of 2016: David Morgan: CBS News
• Top Ten Films of 2016: Bill Stamets: RogerEbert.com
• The Best Movies of 2016: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush Honorable mention
• 20 Best Films of 2016: Steve Erickson: GCN Runner-up
• Top 25 Movies of 2016: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times And 15 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)
• 26 Best Movies of 2016: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post “…had I not been constrained by numerical obstinacy”
• Top Ten Films of 2016: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com Runner-up

Sicario

• 1 Best Films of 2015: Abby Garnett: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 66 Best Films of 2015: IndieWire
• 2 Best Films of 2015: Sasha Perl-Raver: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 The Best Films of 2015: Mike D’Angelo: A.V. Club
• 3 Best Films of 2015: Mallory Andrews: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2015: Larry Fitzmaurice: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 20 Best Movies of 2015: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 5 Best Films of 2015: Katie Kilkenny: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 22 Best Movies of 2015: Christopher Orr: Atlantic
• 6 The Best Films of 2015: Katie Rife: A.V. Club
• 6 20 Best Films of 2015: A.V. Club
• 8 Best Films of 2015: Steven Boone: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 The Best Films of 2015: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: A.V. Club
• 9 Top 10 Films of 2015: In Review Online
• 9 Best Films of 2015: Alynda Wheat: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 12 The Best Films of 2015: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 18 Top 30 Films of 2015: Scott Tobias
• 25 Top 50 Films of 2015: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 32 Top 50 Films of 2015: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 45 50 Best Movies of 2015: Paste
• 45 50 Best Films of 2015: Guardian

• Best Films of 2015: Ben Mercer: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Top 10 Movies of 2015: Lindsey Bahr: AP Honorable mention
• 30 Best Movies of 2015: David Edelstein: New York: Vulture Honorable mention

Prisoners

• 46 Top 50 Films of the 2010s: The Young Folks
• 62 100 Best Films of the 2010s: Insider

• 20 Best Films of 2013: Scott Foundas: Variety Next Ten, in alphabetical order

Polytechnique

• 6 Top 10 Films of 2011: Ed Gonzalez: Slant
• 30 25 Best Films of 2011: Slant The Next 25

Incendies

• 7 Top 10 Movies of 2011: Stephen Holden: New York Times
• 7 Best Films of 2011: David Fear: Time Out New York
• 8 Best Films of 2011: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 17 Top 20 Films of 2011: Empire
• 41 50 Best Released Films of 2011: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 38 25 Best Films of 2011: Slant The Next 25

• Best Films of 2011: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• Top 10 Films of 2011: Nick Schager: Slant Honorable mention
• Top 10 Films of 2011: Ed Gonzalez: Slant Honorable mention
• 15 Best Movies of 2011: Nerve Honorable mention
• Favorite Films of 2011: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian Narrative Features