Year-End Lists

Jay Kelly

• 8 Best Films of 2025: Genevieve Yue: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 10 17 Best Movies of 2025: Decider
• 17 Best Films of 2025: Matilda Hague: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 18 The 25 Best Movies of 2025: Consequence
• 18 Best Films of 2025: Vikram Murthi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 19 Best Films of 2025: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 20 Best Films of 2025: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 25 The 25 Best Films of 2025: The Playlist
• 50 Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

• The Best Movies of 2025: Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal
• Top Ten Films of 2025: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com
• Favorite Movies of 2025: Barack Obama
• Best Films of 2025: Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll American Film
• The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
• The Best Movies of 2025: Peter Debruge: Variety 10 more for good measure
• 10 Best Movies of 2025: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe Runner-up 11-20
• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Peter Travers: The Travers Take The Best of the Rest

White Noise

• 2 The Best Films of 2022: Dazed
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2022: Mike D’Angelo
• 6 Best Movies of 2022: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly
• 10 Best Films of 2022: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 10 Best Films of 2022: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2022: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 14 Best Films of 2022: Ryan Swen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 23 My Favorite Movies of 2022: Sean Fennessey
• 30 The 50 Best Movies of 2022: Paste

• The 29 Best Movies of 2022: Vogue
• Best Movies of 2022: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times And I also recommend
• Notable Films Of 2022: Glenn Kenny Honorable mention

Greenberg

• 14 Best Movies of the 2010s: Susannah Gruder

Marriage Story

• 1 Best Films of 2019: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
• 1 Top 25 Films of 2019: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
• 1 The 20 Best Movies of 2019: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 1 The 21 Best Films of 2019: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
• 1 The Best Films of 2019: A.A. Dowd: A.V. Club
• 1 Top 10 Movies of 2019: Mara Reinstein: Us Weekly
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2019: Freja Dam: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Top 10 Movies of 2019: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
• 2 The Best Films of 2019: Charles Bramesco: A.V. Club
• 2 The 25 Best Films Of 2019: The Playlist
• 2 The Best Films of 2019: Scott Tobias
• 2 The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Daily Beast
• 2 The Best Films of 2019: Owen Gleiberman: Variety
• 2 The Best Movies of 2019: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• 2 The Best Movies of 2019: Nick Schager: Esquire
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2019: Jason Bailey: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2019: Don Kaye: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2019: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
• 3 The 50 Best Movies of 2019: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 3 The Best Movies of 2019: Matt Patches: Polygon
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2019: Anne Thompson: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2019: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
• 3 Top 25 Films of 2019: Robert Daniels
• 3 Top 10 Films of 2019: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2019: Ali Arikan: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
• 4 10 Best Movies of 2019: Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
• 4 The Best Films of 2019: Beatrice Loayza: A.V. Club
• 4 The Best Movies of 2019: The Ringer
• 4 Best Films of 2019: A.V. Club
• 4 Top 10 Films of 2019: Murielle Joudet: Les Inrocks
• 4 The Best Films of 2019: Noel Murray: A.V. Club
• 4 The Best Films of 2019: Katie Walsh: SF Examiner
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2019: Siddhant Adlakha: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2019: Sheila Benson: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2019: Joanna Langfield: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2019: Matthew Wilder: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Ten Best Films of 2019: RogerEbert.com
• 5 Best Movies of 2019: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• 5 The Best Films of 2019: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 5 Top 50 Films of 2019: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2019: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 5 Best Films of 2019: Jake Coyle: AP
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Sean Axmaker: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Tim Grierson: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Gerald Peary: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Josh Spiegel: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 6 Top 10 Films of 2019: Marilou Duponchel: Les Inrocks
• 6 Best Movies of 2019: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
• 6 Favorite Films of 2019: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
• 6 Top Ten Films of 2019: Morgan Leigh Davies: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 6 Top Ten Films of 2019: Alonso Duralde: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 Top 10 Films of 2019: Allison Shoemaker: RogerEbert.com
• 7 The 19 Best Movies of 2019: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2019: Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2019: Jordan Hoffman: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Eric Hynes: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Will Leitch: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Maddie Whittle: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 The 2019 Jim Ridley Film Poll: Nashville Scene
• 10 The 25 Best Films of 2019: Slant
• 10 The Best Films of 2019: Caroline Siede: A.V. Club
• 10 The Best Films of 2019: Katie Rife: A.V. Club
• 10 The 10 Best Films of 2019: David Sims: Atlantic
• 10 Top 20 Films of 2019: Les Inrocks
• 10 Top Ten Films of 2019: Kate Erbland: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 Top Ten Films of 2019: C.J. Prince: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s: Time Out New York
• 11 Best Films of 2019: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 11 The Best Movies of 2019: Tasha Robinson: Polygon
• 11 Favorite Fifteen Films of 2019: Marya E. Gates
• 12 Top 16 Films of 2019: Nictate
• 12 The Best Movies of 2019: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• 13 The Best Films of 2019: Roxana Hadadi: A.V. Club
• 13 The Best Films of 2019: Vikram Murthi: A.V. Club
• 14 The 50 Best Films of 2019: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 15 The Best Films of 2019: Mike D’Angelo: A.V. Club
• 16 The 25 Best Films of 2019: Glenn Kenny
• 17 The 30 Best Films of 2019: Little White Lies
• 41 The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s: Ty Burr: Boston Globe
• 43 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: A.V. Club

• Top 10 Films of 2019: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com
• The Best Films of 2019: Christina Newland: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Phillip Lopate: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• The Best Films of 2019: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal Other Choices in Alphabetical Order
• Best Films of 2019: Spectrum Culture
• The Best Movies of 2019: Polygon
• The Best Films Released in 2019: Economist
• Favorite Movies of 2019: Barack Obama
• Favorite Movies Of 2019: NPR
• The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Dana Stevens: Slate Runner-up
• Best Movies of 2019: Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
• The 10 Best Films of 2019: David Morgan: CBS News Honorable mention
• The Best Films of 2019: Todd McCarthy: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
• Best Films of 2019: Sheri Linden: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
• Best Films of 2019: Ed Gonzalez: Slant Honorable mention
• Top Films of 2019: Steven D. Greydanus: National Catholic Register Runner-up
• Top 10 Films of 2019: Justine Smith: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2019: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• Best Movies of 2019: Manohla Dargis: New York Times And ...
• Top 20 Films of 2019: In Review Online Honorable mention
• The Best Films of the 2010s: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

• 5 Best Films of 2017: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 5 20 Best Films of 2017: Mark Olsen: Los Angeles Times
• 7 Top 25 Films of 2017: Michael Sicinski
• 10 Top Ten Films of 2017: Christina Newland: RogerEbert.com
• 12 Best Movies of 2017: Nick Schager: Esquire
• 14 50 Top Films of 2017: Guardian
• 16 Top 16 Films of 2017: Keith Phipps
• 17 35 Best Movies of 2017: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 20 Top 25 Movies of 2017: Consequence
• 22 25 Best Films of 2017: Charles Bramesco
• 25 50 Best Films of 2017: Slant
• 26 Best Films of 2017: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 27 Favorite Films of 2017: Scout Tafoya

• Top Ten Films of 2017: Vadim Rizov: Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review
• Best Films of 2017: David Ansen: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Ali Arikan: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Abbey Bender: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• The 10 Best Films of 2017: Jourdain Searles
• Best Films of 2017: Vikram Murthi: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Vadim Rizov: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Jaime Christley: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Simon Abrams: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Kristen Yoonsoo Kim: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Phillip Lopate: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Sophia Nguyen: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Alice Stoehr: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Best Films of 2017: Ren Jender: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• Favorite Feature Films of 2017: Ryland Walker Knight
• Favorite Movies of 2017: Karina Longworth
• Best Films of 2017: Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
• Top 10 Movies of 2017: Mara Reinstein: Us Weekly Honorable mention
• 20 Best Films of 2017: Todd McCarthy: Hollywood Reporter And ten honorable mentions
• 20 Best Films of 2017: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush Honorable mention
• 21 Best Movies of 2017: A.O. Scott: New York Times And Also
• Best Films of 2017: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com Other films I loved, other films I considered putting on my Top 10, and so I feel I must mention them
• 24 Best Movies of 2017: K. Austin Collins: The Ringer Honorable mention
• 27 Best Movies of 2017: Matthew Jacobs: HuffPost Honorable mention
• Favorite Movies of 2017: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine Runner-up
• 63 Best Films of 2017: Glenn Kenny First Tier Honorable Mentions

While We’re Young

• 3 Best Films of 2015: Laura Kern: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 The Best Films of 2015: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2015: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
• 7 Best Films of 2015: Peter Debruge: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2015: Adam Kempenaar: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2015: Larry Fitzmaurice: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 12 50 Best Films of 2015: Guardian
• 14 20 Best Movies of 2015: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 25 30 Best Movies of 2015: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 37 50 Best Movies of 2015: Paste

• Best Films of 2015: Kristi Mitsuda: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 29 Best Films of 2015: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post Could easily have ended up in the top ten
• 66 Best Films of 2015: IndieWire Clocking up a vote or two

Mistress America

• 1 Best Films of 2015: Kyle Turner: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2015: Calum Marsh: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2015: Simon Abrams: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 The Best Films of 2015: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 3 Best Films of 2015: Peter Labuza: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2015: Tina Hassannia: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2015: Josh Spiegel: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2015: Willow Maclay: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2015: David Rudin: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2015: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
• 6 Best Films of 2015: Mallory Andrews: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2015: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
• 7 Best Films of 2015: Larry Fitzmaurice: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2015: Katie Walsh: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 30 Best Movies of 2015: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 8 Best Films of 2015: Freja Dam: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2015: Abby Garnett: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2015: Elizabeth Stoddard: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2015: Michael Nordine: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 25 Best Films of 2015: David Ehrlich
• 9 Best Films of 2015: Kate Erbland: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 50 Best Movies of 2015: Paste
• 10 50 Best Films of 2015: Guardian
• 10 10 Best Films of 2015: Amy Taubin: Artforum
• 11 15 Favorite Films of 2015: Kevin B. Lee: Fandor
• 18 Top 50 Films of 2015: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 21 50 Best Films of 2015: Slant
• 29 Top 50 Films of 2015: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 33 47 Noteworthy Films of 2015: Glenn Kenny
• 81 Top 100 Films of the 2010s: In Review Online

• 17 Best Films of 2015: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair Honorable mention
• 29 Best Films of 2015: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post Could easily have ended up in the top ten
• 66 Best Films of 2015: IndieWire Just missing out on the top 20

Frances Ha

• 1 Top 15 Films of 2013: Noel Murray: The Dissolve
• 1 The Best Films of 2013: Mike D’Angelo: A.V. Club
• 2 Favorite Fifteen Films of 2013: Marya E. Gates
• 2 Top 16 Films of 2013: Brian Darr
• 3 The Top 10 Films Of 2013: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair
• 3 20 Best Films of 2013: L Magazine
• 3 20 Best Films of 2013: A.V. Club
• 3 Top 10 Movies of 2013: Jake Coyle: AP
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2013: Dave Gonzalez: Fighting in the War Room
• 4 20 Best Films of 2013: The Dissolve
• 4 The Best Films of 2013: A.A. Dowd: A.V. Club
• 5 Top 10 Films of 2013: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 5 The Best Films of 2013: Scott MacDonald: A.V. Club
• 5 21 Favorite Movies of 2013: Stephanie Zacharek: Village Voice
• 5 The Best Movies of 2013: Jordan Hoffman: ScreenCrush
• 6 Best Films of 2013: Reverse Shot
• 6 Top 15 Films of 2013: Nathan Rabin: The Dissolve
• 6 The Best Films of 2013: Ben Kenigsberg: A.V. Club
• 6 Top 10 Films of 2013: Michael Sicinski
• 7 35 Favorite Films of 2013: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• 7 Top 15 Films of 2013: Genevieve Koski: The Dissolve
• 7 The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s: K. Austin Collins: Vanity Fair
• 7 Top 10 Movies of the 2010s: Sean Fennessey: The Ringer: The Big Picture
• 7 Top 10 Movies of the 2010s: Amanda Dobbins: The Ringer: The Big Picture
• 8 Top 15 Films of 2013: Matt Singer: The Dissolve
• 8 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: A.V. Club
• 9 Best Films of 2013: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 Top 15 Films of 2013: Keith Phipps: The Dissolve
• 9 50 Best Movies of 2013: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 10 Top 50 Films of 2013: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 10 20 Best Films of 2013: Les Inrocks
• 11 Top 20 Films of 2013: In Review Online
• 11 100 Best Films of the 2010s: Insider
• 12 Top 15 Films of 2013: Scott Tobias: The Dissolve
• 17 25 Best Films of 2013: Slant
• 19 Top 50 Films of the 2010s: The Young Folks
• 23 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: Paste
• 23 Best Movies of the 2010s: Susannah Gruder
• 24 30 Top Films of 2013: Glenn Kenny
• 25 25 Best Films of 2013: David Ehrlich
• 27 Top 100 Films of the 2010s: Consequence
• 28 The 100 Best Films of the 2010s: The Playlist
• 32 The 40 Best Films of the 2010s: Independent
• 45 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: Film School Rejects
• 55 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: IndieWire

• The Top 10 Films of 2013: Katey Rich: Vanity Fair Honorable mention
• 20 Best Films of 2013: Scott Foundas: Variety Next Ten, in alphabetical order
• Best Movies of 2013: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• Favourite Films of the 2010s: Willow Maclay