Year-End Lists

The Room Next Door

7. Les Inrocks: Our Top Films of 2025
9. RogerEbert.com: Brian Tallerico: Top Ten Films of 2024
9. Variety: Peter Debruge: The Best Movies of 2024
18. Benoit Rouilly: Best Films of 2024
27. IndieWire Poll: Best Movies of 2024
31. Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
31. Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2024

• HuffPost: The Best Films Of 2024
• RogerEbert.com: The Best Films of 2024
• Hollywood Reporter: Jon Frosch: Best Films of 2024
• Slant: The 25 Best Films of 2024
• Boston Globe: Odie Henderson: 10 Best Movies of 2024
• Wallpaper: Nick Levine: The 10 Best Films of 2024
• Them: The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024
• Saige Walton: Favorite Films from 2024
• Autostraddle: Drew Burnett Gregory: The Best Queer Movies of 2024
• Time: Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2024
• Washington Post: Ty Burr: The Best Movies of 2024
• AnOther Magazine: The Very Best Films of 2024
• New York Times: Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2024
• World of Reel: Jordan Ruimy: 10 Best Films of 2024

Strange Way of Life

8. Best Movies of 2023: John Waters: New York: Vulture
34. The 50 Best Films of 2023: Guardian

Parallel Mothers

3. Les Inrocks: Murielle Joudet: Top 6 Films of 2021
4. Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2021
4. RogerEbert.com: Marya E. Gates: Top Ten Films of 2021
4. RogerEbert.com: Roxana Hadadi: Top Ten Films of 2021
4. Robert Daniels: Top 50 Films of 2021
4. Hollywood Reporter: David Rooney: Best Films of 2021
4. Ty Burr: The Best Movies of 2021
5. The Reveal: Keith Phipps: The Best Films of 2021
5. Time: Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2021
6. Los Angeles Times: Justin Chang: The Best Movies of 2021
6. Hollywood Reporter: Lovia Gyarkye: Best Films of 2021
8. A.V. Club: Carlos Aguilar: The Best Films of 2021
9. Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best Movies of 2021
9. RogerEbert.com: Odie Henderson: Top Ten Films of 2021
10. Variety: Owen Gleiberman: The Best Films of 2021
10. RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2021
10. Slant: The 50 Best Films of 2021
10. IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2021
11. The Playlist: The 25 Best Films Of 2021
13. A.V. Club: Leila Latif: The Best Films of 2021
13. Susannah Gruder: Best Films of 2021
13. Les Inrocks: 20 Essential Films of 2021
14. Paste: The 50 Best Movies of 2021
14. New Yorker: Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2021
19. Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2021
19. Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2021
22. Scout Tafoya: My Favourite Films of 2021
31. Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2022
45. IndieWire Poll: Best Films of 2021

• Deadline: Todd McCarthy: Best Movies Of 2021
• New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2021
• Hollywood Reporter: Jon Frosch: Best Films of 2021
• Slate: Dana Stevens: The 10 Best Movies of 2021
• Washington Post: Ann Hornaday: Best Movies of 2021
• Glenn Kenny: Notable Film Releases of 2021
• Polygon: The Best Movies of 2021
• RogerEbert.com: Sheila O’Malley: Top Ten Films of 2021
• In Review Online: Top 25 Films of 2021

The Human Voice

2. Rolling Stone: David Fear: 20 Best Movies of 2021
7. Artforum: John Waters: 10 Best Films of 2020

• Glenn Kenny: Notable Film Releases of 2021
• Cinema Etc.: Henry Baime: Top 10 Films of 2020

Pain and Glory

1. Top 25 Films of 2019: Robert Daniels
1. Top 10 Films of 2019: Murielle Joudet: Les Inrocks
1. Favorite Fifteen Films of 2019: Marya E. Gates
1. The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
1. Best Films of 2019: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
1. Top 20 Films of 2019: Les Inrocks
1. Best Movies of 2019: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
1. The 19 Best Movies of 2019: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
2. The Best Films of 2019: Peter Debruge: Variety
2. The 25 Best Films of 2019: Glenn Kenny
2. Top 10 Films of 2019: Marilou Duponchel: Les Inrocks
2. Top Ten Films of 2019: Odie Henderson: RogerEbert.com
3. Top Ten Films of 2019: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
4. The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
4. Top 10 Movies of 2019: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
4. Ten Best Films of 2019: RogerEbert.com
5. 10 Best Films of 2019: Melissa Anderson: Artforum
5. Top Ten Films of 2019: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
5. Best Films of 2019: Keith Uhlich: Slant
6. Top 10 Films of 2019: Josh Larsen: Filmspotting
6. The 50 Best Films of 2019: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
6. The 50 Best Movies of 2019: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
6. Best Films of 2019: Jake Coyle: AP
6. Top 10 Films of 2019: Cahiers du Cinéma
6. Favorite Films of 2019: David Hudson
6. Top Ten Films of 2019: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
7. 10 Best Films of 2019: John Waters: Artforum
9. Top Ten Films of 2019: Anne Thompson: Filmmaker Magazine
9. Best Films of 2019: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
9. Top 50 Films of 2019: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
10. Top Ten Films of 2019: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
10. The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Daily Beast
10. The 30 Best Films of 2019: Little White Lies
10. The 2019 Jim Ridley Film Poll: Nashville Scene
13. The 25 Best Films of 2019: David Ehrlich
13. Top 16 Films of 2019: Nictate
14. The Best Films of 2019: Scott Tobias
15. Top 25 Films of 2019: Michael Glover Smith
15. The 25 Best Films Of 2019: The Playlist
16. The 25 Best Films of 2019: Slant
19. Top 25 Films of 2019: Caden Mark Gardner
21. The Best Movies of 2019: Nick Schager: Esquire
24. Top 25 Films of 2019: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
24. The 100 Best Films of the Decade: The Playlist

• Best Movies of 2019: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
• Top 12 Films of 2019: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
• The Best Movies of 2019: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• Best Movies of 2019: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• Best Films of 2019: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• The 10 Best Films of 2019: Sean Burns: WBUR: ARTery
• The Best Films of 2019: B. Ruby Rich: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• The Best Films of 2019: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal
• The 15 Best Movies of 2019: K. Austin Collins: Vanity Fair
• Best Movies of 2019: Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Lara Zarum: Filmmaker Magazine
• The 10 Best Films of 2019: David Morgan: CBS News
• Favorite Movies Of 2019: NPR
• The Best Films of 2019: So Mayer: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Dana Stevens: Slate
• Best Films of 2019: Steve Erickson: GCN
• Best Films of 2019: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
• The 10 Best Films of 2019: David Sims: Atlantic
• Top Ten Films of 2019: Clémence Polès Farhang
• Favorite Films of 2019: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
• Top 20 Films of 2019: In Review Online

Julieta

2. 25 Best Films of 2016: Little White Lies
5. Top 10 Films of 2016: Murielle Joudet: Les Inrocks
6. Top Ten Films of 2016: Cahiers du Cinéma
7. 10 Best Films of 2016: John Waters: Artforum
9. Best Films of 2016: B. Ruby Rich: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
13. 25 Best Films of 2016: Time Out London
13. Top 30 Films of 2016: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
14. Top 20 Films of 2016: Les Inrocks
17. 20 Best Movies of 2016: Bilge Ebiri: Village Voice
20. Favorite Films of 2017: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
50. Top 50 Films of 2016: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll

• Best Films of 2016: Mark Kermode: Observer
• Top Ten Films of 2016: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid

I’m So Excited!

5. Top Ten Movies of 2013: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
10. 10 Best Films of 2013: John Waters: Artforum

The Skin I Live In

1. Best Films of 2011: John Waters: Artforum
4. Best Films of 2011: Tasha Robinson: A.V. Club
4. 20 Best Films of 2011: Les Inrocks
4. Best Five Films of 2011: Dave Calhoun: Time Out London
5. Favorite Fifteen Films of 2011: Marya E. Gates
8. Favorite Films of 2011: Jonathan Rosenbaum: IndieWire: Village Voice Film Poll
8. Best Films of 2011: Sam Adams: A.V. Club
8. Best Films of 2011: Keith Phipps: A.V. Club
8. Year in Film 2011: A.V. Club
9. 25 Best Films of 2011: David Ehrlich
9. Best Films of 2011: Peter Bradshaw: Guardian
15. 20 Best Films of 2011: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
17. 50 Best Movies of 2011: Total Film
23. Best Films of 2011: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
23. 25 Best Films of 2011: Slant
25. 26 Best Films of 2011: Richard Brody: New Yorker
29. Best Movies of the 2010s: Susannah Gruder
31. 50 Best Released Films of 2011: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
39. Best Films of 2011: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll

• Best Films of 2011: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• Favourite Films of the 2010s: Willow Maclay