Year-End Lists

Universal Language

• 3 Best Films of 2025: Ehsan Khoshbakht: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2024: Isabel Sandoval: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2024: Michael Blair: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2024: Jason Anderson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2024: John Bleasdale: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2024: Kevin B. Lee: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2024: Charles Whitehouse: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 4 The Best Films of 2024: Justine Smith: Cult MTL
• 5 Best Films of 2025: William Webb: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2024: William Webb: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 5 The Best Movies of 2024: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
• 6 Best Films of 2024: Saffron Maeve: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2024: Amanda Chen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2024: Carly Mattox: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2024: Chloe Walker: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2024: David Schwartz: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 8 The Best Movies of 2024: Amy Nicholson: Los Angeles Times
• 8 Top Ten Films of 2024: Katie Rife: RogerEbert.com
• 9 Best Films of 2024: Stephen Dalton: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2024: Alex Dudok de Wit: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 13 The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• 14 Best Films of 2024: Bedatri Datta Choudhury: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 16 The 25 Best Films of 2024: A.V. Club
• 17 Best Films of 2024: Eric Hynes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 19 Best Films of 2024: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 24 51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge
• 25 The 50 Best Films of 2024: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 39 Best Films of 2025: In Review Online
• 56 100 Favorite Movies of 2024: Sean Fennessey

• Best Films of 2024: Dorota Lech: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Max Cea: Esquire Honorable mention
• The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024: A.S. Hamrah: n+1
• The Best Films of 2024: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Best Movies of 2024: Jake Coyle: AP Also
• The 25 Best Films of 2024: Slant Runner-up

The Twentieth Century

• 1 The Best Films of 2020: Charles Bramesco: A.V. Club
• 12 My Favorite Films of 2020: Simon Abrams
• 27 The Best Films of 2020: Slant