Year-End Lists

Dahomey

• #1 Best Films of 2024: Guilherme Blanc: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Sarah Fensom: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Cici Peng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Julian Ross: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Chris Shields: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Erika Balsom: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Chris Shields: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Sam Wigley: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Jessica Dunn Rovinelli: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Sona Karapoghosyan: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Tom Charity: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Patrick Gamble: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Laura Staab: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Benoit Rouilly
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Mackenzie Lukenbill: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Carly Mattox: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Cristina Nord: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Genevieve Yue: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Imogen Sara Smith: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Thomas Flew: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Pamela Hutchinson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Katie McCabe: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Brogan Morris: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 The 50 Best Films of 2024: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Imogen Sara Smith: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Reverse Shot
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Jean-Michel Frodon: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Inney Prakash: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Alex Davidson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Michael Koresky: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Sophia Satchell-Baeza: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Movies of 2024: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Bedatri Datta Choudhury: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Leonardo Goi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Wendy Ide: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Caitlin Quinlan: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Alex Ramon: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Caitlin Quinlan: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Jawni Han: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: J. Hoberman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Giovanni Marchini Camia: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Giovanni Vimercati: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Jamie Dunn: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: J. Hoberman: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Lovia Gyarkye: Hollywood Reporter
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Kate Stables: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 20 Best Movies of 2024: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• #7 Our Top Films of 2024: Les Inrocks
• #8 Best Films of 2024: Michael Koresky: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2024: Nick James: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2024: Matthew Thrift: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2024: Matt Turner: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2024: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #8 Top Ten Films of 2024: Cortlyn Kelly: RogerEbert.com
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Leo Goldsmith: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Saffron Maeve: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Jonathan Romney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Antoine Thirion: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Matene Toure: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Maddie Whittle: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Molly Haskell: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Kevin B. Lee: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2024: J. Hoberman: Artforum
• #10 Best Films of 2024: Avanish Chandrasekaran: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2024: Annabel Bai Jackson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #11 Best Films of 2024: Victor Guimarães: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #11 Best Films of 2024: Michael Sicinski: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #11 Best Movies of 2024: Screen Slate
• #11 The 30 Best Films of 2024: Little White Lies
• #12 Best Films of 2024: Dennis Lim: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #12 Best Films of 2024: Madeline Ostdick: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Best Films of 2024: Margaret Barton-Fumo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Best Films of 2024: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #14 Best Films of 2024: Michael Blair: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #14 Best Films of 2024: Guy Lodge: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Mark Kermode Joint 5th
• #15 Best Films of 2024: Eric Hynes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #16 Best Films of 2024: Darren Hughes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #17 The 25 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire
• #17 The Best Movies of 2024: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• #19 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Paste
• #20 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Guardian
• #20 Best Films of 2024: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #23 The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire
• #26 Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
• #27 51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge
• #33 Best Films of 2024: In Review Online
• #35 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #2 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll Best Documentary
• #63 100 Favorite Movies of 2024: Sean Fennessey

• Best Films of 2024: Christopher Harris: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Matt Turner: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Nicole Brenez: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Adam Piron: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Favorite Movies of 2024: Sarah Welch-Larson
• Best Films of 2024: Jonathan Ali: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2024: Clémence Polès Farhang
• Top Ten Films of 2024: Robert Daniels: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2024: Wael Khairy: RogerEbert.com
• The 12 Best Documentaries of 2024: Noel Murray: Polygon
• Best Movies of 2024: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll Honorable mention
• Best Films of 2024: Matías Piñeiro: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Jamsheed Akrami: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Robert Daniels: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Dorota Lech: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Ryan Swen: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Near-Misses
• The Best Films of 2024: Justine Smith: Cult MTL Honorable mention
• The 10 Best Movies of 2024: Dana Stevens: Slate Runner-up
• Best Films of 2024: Guy Lodge: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Could Have Made the Cut, in Another Mood
• The Best Movies of 2024: Ty Burr: Washington Post Runner-up
• Best Films of 2024: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
• 10 Best Movies of 2024: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe Runner-up numbers 11-20
• The Best Films of 2024: Justin Chang: New Yorker Nine honorable mentions, in alphabetical order
• The Best Movies of 2024: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush Honorable mention
• The 25 Best Films of 2024: Slant Runner-up

In My Room

• #7 Best Films of 2020: Ross McDonnell: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

• Best Films of 2020: Ian Mantgani: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Honorable mention
• Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film at Lincoln Center Ten short/medium-length films, alphabetical

Atlantics

• #1 Top Ten Films of 2019: Ren Jender: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2019: Susannah Gruder
• #2 Top Ten Films of 2019: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
• #2 Top Ten Films of 2019: Carlos Aguilar: RogerEbert.com
• #3 10 Best Films of 2019: Melissa Anderson: Artforum
• #4 Best Films of 2019: Reverse Shot
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2019: Eric Hynes: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2019: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 The 15 Best Movies of 2019: K. Austin Collins: Vanity Fair
• #5 Top 10 Films of 2019: Justine Smith: RogerEbert.com
• #5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Mike Rubin: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Matthew Wilder: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #6 Favorite Films of 2019: Saige Walton
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2019: Seongyong Cho: RogerEbert.com
• #7 The 50 Best Films of 2019: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair
• #7 Top 10 Movies of 2019: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
• #7 Top Ten Films of 2019: Danny Bowes: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #7 Top Ten Films of 2019: A.S. Hamrah: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #8 Top 25 Films of 2019: Caden Mark Gardner
• #8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Sean Axmaker: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Matt Prigge: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Jeff Reichert: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #9 Top 25 Films of 2019: Michael Glover Smith
• #9 Top 10 Movies of 2019: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
• #9 Top 16 Films of 2019: Nictate
• #9 The Best Movies of 2019: The Ringer
• #9 Top Ten Films of 2019: Florence Almozini: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #9 Top Ten Films of 2019: Daryl Chin: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #10 10 Best Films of 2020: Cassie da Costa: Artforum
• #10 Favorite 2019 Movies: Fernando F. Croce
• #10 Best Films of 2019: Steve Erickson: GCN
• #10 Best Films of 2019: Keith Uhlich: Slant
• #10 Best Movies of 2019: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• #10 Best Films of 2019: Jake Coyle: AP
• #10 Top Ten Films of 2019: Ali Arikan: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #10 Top Ten Films of 2019: Aaron Hillis: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #10 Top Ten Films of 2019: Dan Kois: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #10 Top Ten Films of 2019: Collin Souter: RogerEbert.com
• #11 The 19 Best Movies of 2019: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
• #12 The 25 Best Films of 2019: Slant
• #14 Top 15 Feature Films of 2019: Hyperallergic
• #14 The 30 Best Films of 2019: Little White Lies
• #15 Top 50 Films of 2019: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• #18 Top 25 Films of 2019: Robert Daniels
• #19 The 50 Best Movies of 2019: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #19 The 25 Best Films of 2019: David Ehrlich
• #43 The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s: Ty Burr: Boston Globe

• Best Films of 2019: Christina Newland: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• The 10 Best Films of 2019: Sean Burns: WBUR: ARTery
• Best Films of 2019: Rebecca Harrison: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Nick Pinkerton: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Caspar Salmon: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Imogen Sara Smith: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Beth Webb: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Kelli Weston: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Catherine Wheatley: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: B. Ruby Rich: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Simran Hans: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Ashley Clark: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Nick James: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Violet Lucca: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Katherine McLaughlin: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Sophie Monks Kaufman: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Jonathan Romney: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Kate Stables: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Becca Voelcker: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Eric Hynes: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Cynthia Fuchs: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Nellie Killian: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Robert Koehler: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll Debut Film
• The Best Films Released in 2019: Economist
• Favorite Movies of 2019: Barack Obama
• Favorite Movies Of 2019: NPR
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Clémence Polès Farhang Notable Mentions
• The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Dana Stevens: Slate Runner-up
• Best Films of 2019: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2019: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune 11-20, alphabetically
• Favorite Films by Women in 2019: Kimber Myers
• Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles
• The Best Movies of 2019: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• Best Movies of 2019: Manohla Dargis: New York Times And ...
• Best Movies of 2019: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times Honorable mention

A Thousand Suns

• #10 Best Films of 2015: Miriam Bale: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• #10 Top 20 Films of 2014: Les Inrocks