Year-End Lists

It Was Just an Accident

1. Top Ten Films of 2025: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
1. Top 10 Films of 2025: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
1. The Best Movies of 2025: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
2. Top Ten Films of 2025: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
2. Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
2. Best Movies of 2025: Alissa Wilkinson: New York Times
2. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: David Sims: Atlantic
2. Best Films of 2025: Reverse Shot
2. The Ten Best Films of 2025: RogerEbert.com
2. Best Films of 2025: Mark Kermode
2. Top Ten Films of 2025: Robert Daniels: RogerEbert.com
3. Best Films of 2025: Passerby
3. Best Movies of 2025: Jake Coyle: AP
3. The Best Films of 2025: A.A. Dowd
3. The 10 Best Films of 2025: Christina Newland: The i Paper
3. The Ten Best Films of 2025: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
3. The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr
4. The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
4. Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
4. Best Films of 2025: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
4. 10 Best Films of 2025: Anita Katz: Bay City News
4. The 25 Best Films of 2025: Slant
4. Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
4. Top Ten Films of 2025: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
5. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Brian Truitt: USA Today
5. Top 10 Films of 2025: Victor Morton
5. The 25 Best Films of 2025: The Playlist
5. The 25 Best Movies of 2025: IndieWire
5. The 15 Best Films of 2025: Clarisse Loughrey: Independent
6. The Best Films of 2025: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
6. Top Ten Films of 2025: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
6. The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone
6. Best Movies of 2025: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
6. Top Ten Films of 2025: Katie Rife: RogerEbert.com
6. The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
7. The Best Movies of 2025: Peter Debruge: Variety
8. Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP
8. The 25 Best Films of 2025: David Ehrlich
8. Best Movies of 2025: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
8. Top 50 Films of 2025: Film Stage
8. The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Max Cea: Esquire
8. Best Movies of 2025: Screen Slate
9. The Best Movies of 2025: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
9. The 30 Best Films of 2025: Little White Lies
10. Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey
10. The Best Films of 2025: Justin Chang: New Yorker
10. Best Films of 2025: Benoit Rouilly
11. 25 Best Films of 2025: A.V. Club
14. 15 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
18. The Best Movies of 2025: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
19. Best Films of 2025: In Review Online

• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Nick Schager: Daily Beast
• Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen
• The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
• The Best Films of 2025: Economist
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate
• Best Movies of 2025: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• The Best Films of 2025: Sean Burns: WBUR
• Films of the Year 2025: New Statesman
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
• Best Films of 2025: Spectrum Culture

No Bears

1. Best Movies of 2022: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
1. The Best Movies of 2022: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
2. Top Ten Films of 2022: Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com
3. Best Movies of 2022: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly
3. The 25 Best Movies of 2022: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
4. Best Movies of 2022: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
4. Ten Best Films of 2022: Michael J. Anderson
4. The Best Movies of 2022: Richard Brody: New Yorker
5. The Best Movies of 2022: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
5. 22 Best Movies of 2022: David Fear: Rolling Stone
5. Best Movies of 2022: A.O. Scott: New York Times
5. Top Ten Films of 2022: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
6. Best Movies of 2022: Nick Schager: Daily Beast
6. Best Films of 2022: Jake Coyle: AP
7. Top 10 Films of 2022: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
7. The Ten Best Films of 2022: RogerEbert.com
8. Top 10 Movies of 2022: Sam Adams
9. Best Films of 2022: Reverse Shot
15. The Top 20 Best Films Of The Year 2022: Mark Hughes: Forbes
20. The 25 Best Films of 2022: Slant
35. The Best Films of 2022: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
43. Top 50 Films of 2022: Film Stage
45. Top 50 Movies of 2022: Jessica Kiang
48. The 50 Best Films of 2022: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
50. The 50 Best Movies of 2022: Paste

• Best Films of 2023: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2022: Danny Leigh: Financial Times
• Top 20 Films of 2022: Ty Burr
• The Best Films of 2022: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
• Top Ten Films of 2022: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2022: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
• Notable Films Of 2022: Glenn Kenny
• Top Ten Films of 2022: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
• Best Films of 2022: Passerby

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2. Top 25 Movies of 2021: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone

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3. The 10 Best Films of 2019: David Morgan: CBS News
4. The Best Movies of 2019: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
18. Top 25 Films of 2019: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
18. The 21 Best Films of 2019: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
85. Favourite Films of 2018: Scout Tafoya

• Best Movies of 2019: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• Films I Adored in 2018: Saige Walton

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4. 20 Best Films of 2015: Little White Lies
4. 15 Favorite Films of 2015: Kevin B. Lee: Fandor
4. Top 17 Films of 2015: David Hudson: Fandor: Keyframe Daily
5. 30 Best Movies of 2015: Richard Brody: New Yorker
6. 20 Best Movies of 2015: A.O. Scott: New York Times
6. 19 Best Movies of 2015: Alison Willmore: BuzzFeed
7. Top 25 Films of 2015: Fandor
8. Best 15 Films of 2015: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
12. 50 Best Films of 2015: Slant
13. Favorite Films of 2015: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
14. Top 35 Films of 2015: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
17. 20 Best Movies of 2015: Time Out London
17. 50 Best Films of 2015: Guardian
21. Top 50 Films of 2015: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
40. Top 50 Films of 2015: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll

• The Twenty-Seven Best Movies of the 2010s: Richard Brody: New Yorker