Year-End Lists

Dracula

• #2 Best Films of 2025: Sarah Fensom: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2025: Chris Shields: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Travis Jeppesen: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Maxwell Paparella: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Cici Peng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Chris Shields: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Kevin B. Lee: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Inney Prakash: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Maddie Whittle: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Matthew Thrift: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2025: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2025: J. Hoberman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Daniel Zheng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Michael Atkinson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #10 The Best Movies of 2025: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Michael Blair: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #15 Best Films of 2025: Manu Yáñez-Murillo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #20 Best Films of 2025: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #58 Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

• Best Films of 2025: Matías Piñeiro: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Movies of 2025: Steve Erickson: GCN Runner-up
• Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen Not to discount these
• Best Films of 2025: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll 25 More

Kontinental '25

• #2 Best Films of 2025: Travis Jeppesen: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Jordan Cronk: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2025: Geoff Andrew: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2025: Dario Llinares: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2025: Scout Tafoya: RogerEbert.com
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Dylan Huw: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Vadim Rizov: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2025: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2025: Nick Hasted: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #8 Ten Best Films of 2025: Michael J. Anderson
• #8 Best Films of 2025: Ryan Swen: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2025: Bedatri Datta Choudhury: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2025: Hope Rangaswami: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #13 The 50 Best Films of 2025: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

• The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Nick Schager: Daily Beast Honorable mention

Sleep #2

• #44 51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge

Eight Postcards from Utopia

• #10 Best Films of 2024: Alex Barrett: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #44 51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge

The Potemkinists

• #5 Best Films of 2023: Emerson Goo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

• #1 Best Films of 2024: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Jordan Cronk: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Matilda Hague: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Alyssandra Maxine: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Steven Mears: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: R. Emmet Sweeney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Alex Barrett: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 The 25 Best Films of 2024: Slant
• #1 The Best Movies of 2024: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
• #1 Top Ten Films of 2024: Katie Rife: RogerEbert.com
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Giovanni Marchini Camia: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2024: Travis Jeppesen: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Top 50 Movies of 2023: Jessica Kiang
• #1 Best Films of 2023: Kevin B. Lee: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2023: Tom Charity: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2023: Giovanni Marchini Camia: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2023: Christopher Small: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Julian Ross: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Antoine Thirion: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Giovanni Vimercati: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Michael Atkinson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Nicole Flattery: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Ryan Swen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 Top 10 Films of 2024: Ryan Swen
• #2 Best Films of 2024: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #2 The Best Films of 2024: Justin Chang: New Yorker
• #2 The Best Films of 2024: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
• #2 The Best Movies of 2024: Sam Adams: Slate
• #2 Best Movies of 2023: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2023: Kieron Corless: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Leonardo Goi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Dennis Lim: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Dash Shaw: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: In Review Online
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Michael Koresky: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Beatrice Loayza: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: David Thompson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Top 10 Films of 2024: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Nathan Lee: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Katie McCabe: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2024: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #3 The Best Movies of 2024: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
• #3 Best Films of 2023: Beatrice Loayza: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2023: Erika Balsom: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2023: Jonathan Ali: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2023: Sam Wigley: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: J. Hoberman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Michael Koresky: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: David Schwartz: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Michael Sicinski: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Genevieve Yue: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Movies of 2024: Screen Slate
• #4 The Best Movies of 2024: Ty Burr: Washington Post
• #4 Best Movies of 2024: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• #4 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Paste
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Chloe Lizotte: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: Maddie Whittle: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2024: J. Hoberman: Artforum
• #4 Best Films of 2023: J. Hoberman: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2023: Geoff Andrew: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2023: Philip Concannon: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2023: Jordan Cronk: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Will Sloan: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 10 Best Movies of 2024: Nick Schager: Daily Beast
• #5 The 25 Best Films of 2024: David Ehrlich
• #5 Best Films of 2024: Reverse Shot
• #5 Best Films of 2023: Jonathan Romney: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2023: Nick James: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Michael Blair: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Cici Peng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2024: Inney Prakash: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Top Ten Films of 2024: Marya E. Gates: RogerEbert.com
• #6 The Best Films of 2024: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Cristina Nord: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 The Ten Best Films of 2024: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Daniel Kasman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2024: Sarah Fensom: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #7 Top Ten Films of 2024: Tim Grierson: RogerEbert.com
• #7 Top Ten Films of 2024: Brendan Hodges: RogerEbert.com
• #7 Top Ten Films of 2023: Cahiers du Cinéma
• #7 Best Films of 2023: Rafa Sales Ross: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #8 Top Ten Films of 2024: Josh Larsen
• #8 Best Films of 2024: Vikram Murthi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2023: Molly Haskell: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #9 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #9 20 Best Movies of 2024: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• #9 Best Films of 2024: Eric Hynes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 The 50 Best Films of 2023: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2023: Laura Staab: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2024: Margaret Barton-Fumo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2024: Azadeh Jafari: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #10 The 25 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire
• #10 Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
• #10 Best Movies of 2023: John Waters: New York: Vulture
• #10 Best Films of 2023: Nick Bradshaw: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #11 Best Films of 2024: Chris Shields: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #11 Best Films of 2024: Darren Hughes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #12 Best Films of 2024: Bedatri Datta Choudhury: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #12 The 25 Best Films of 2024: A.V. Club
• #12 The Best Movies of 2023: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair
• #15 Best Films of 2024: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #18 The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire
• #21 The 50 Best Films of 2024: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #14 Favorite Films of 2024: Austin Noto-Moniz Runner-up
• #24 Top 50 Films of 2023: Film Stage
• #27 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Guardian
• #29 The 50 Best Movies of 2023: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #45 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Polygon
• #52 100 Favorite Movies of 2024: Sean Fennessey
• #2 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll Best International Film

• The 5 Best Films of 2024: Sean Burns: WBUR
• Best Films of 2024: Phil Coldiron: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Jason Fox: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Movies of 2024: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• Best Films of 2024: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2024: Robert Daniels: RogerEbert.com
• The 10 Best Movies of 2024: Dana Stevens: Slate
• Top Ten Films of 2024: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• Favorite Films of 2024: Dennis Cooper
• Best Movies of 2024: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll Honorable mention
• Best Films of 2024: Matías Piñeiro: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Favorite Films of 2023: Dennis Cooper
• Best Films of 2024: Robert Daniels: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Jessica Green: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2024: Dorota Lech: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Very Best Films of 2024: AnOther Magazine
• The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024: A.S. Hamrah: n+1
• The Best Films of 2024: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Top 10 Films of 2024: Steve Erickson: GCN Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2024: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush Honorable mention
• 10 Best Films of 2024: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel Additional films this year I admired or loved

Potemkinistii

• #8 Best Films of 2022: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

• Best Films of 2022: Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

• #1 Best Films of 2021: J. Hoberman: Artforum
• #1 Best Films of 2021: Jessica Green: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2021: J. Hoberman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2021: Kaleem Aftab: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2021: Carmen Gray: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2021: J. Hoberman: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #1 Best Films of 2021: Violet Lucca: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 The Best Movies of 2021: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
• #2 Best Movies of 2021: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• #2 The Best Films of 2021: Charles Bramesco: A.V. Club
• #2 Best Movies of 2021: Chloe Lizotte: Screen Slate
• #2 Best Films of 2021: Alex Davidson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #2 Best Films of 2021: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #3 Best Movies of 2021: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• #3 The Best Films of 2021: Scott Tobias: The Reveal The Top 15
• #3 Best Films of 2021: James Lattimer: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2021: Susannah Gruder
• #4 Best Films of 2021: Matthew Eng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2021: Devika Girish: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #4 Top Ten Films of 2021: Michał Oleszczyk: RogerEbert.com
• #5 Best Movies of 2021: Screen Slate
• #5 Best Films of 2021: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2021: Dennis Lim: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2021: Isabel Sandoval: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #5 Best Films of 2021: K.F. Watanabe: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 20 Best Movies of 2021: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• #6 My Favourite Films of 2021: Scout Tafoya
• #6 The Best Films of 2021: Noel Murray: A.V. Club
• #6 Best Films of 2021: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2021: Robert Koehler: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #7 Best Films of 2021: Reverse Shot
• #7 The Best Movies of 2021: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• #7 Best Films of 2021: Maddie Whittle: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #8 Best Films of 2021: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #8 Top Ten Films of 2021: Godfrey Cheshire: RogerEbert.com
• #9 The Best Films of 2021: Vikram Murthi: A.V. Club
• #9 Best Films of 2021: Lawrence Garcia: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2021: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #10 Best Films of 2021: Leonardo Goi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #11 Best Films of 2021: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #11 The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire
• #11 Top 20 Movies of 2021: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club
• #11 Best Films of 2021: Carlos Valladares: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #13 Top 50 Films of 2021: Robert Daniels
• #14 The Best Films of 2021: A.V. Club
• #19 The Best Movies of 2021: Ty Burr
• #20 The 30 Best Films of 2021: Little White Lies
• #24 Best Films of 2021: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #24 The 25 Best Movies of 2021: IndieWire
• #26 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #30 Top 50 Films of 2021: Film Stage
• #31 The 50 Best Movies of 2021: Paste

• Best Films of 2021: Matías Piñeiro: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2021: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• Best Films of 2021: James Wham: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Ela Bittencourt: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Violet Lucca: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Our Top 10 Films of 2021: Hyperallergic Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2021: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times Honorable mention
• Top 25 Films of 2021: In Review Online Honorable mention

Uppercase Print

• #4 Best Films of 2020: Geoff Andrew: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• #12 Best Films of 2021: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• #22 The Best Movies of 2021: Richard Brody: New Yorker

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

• #3 Top 12 Films of 2019: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader
• #7 Best Movies of 2019: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
• #9 Top Ten Films of 2019: Michał Oleszczyk: RogerEbert.com
• #18 The 25 Best Films of 2019: Slant

• Best Films of 2018: Mark Cousins: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2018: Demetrios Matheou: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2018: Roger Koza: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• Best Films of 2019: Tara Judah: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Movies of 2019: A.O. Scott: New York Times And ...

Scarred Hearts

• #9 Favourite Films of 2018: Scout Tafoya
• #9 Top Ten Films of 2018: Scout Tafoya: RogerEbert.com
• #12 Top 15 Films of 2018: Lawrence Garcia: A.V. Club
• #14 Top 20 Films of 2018: Jordan Cronk

• Best Movies of 2018: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• Top Movies of 2018: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader Runner-up

Aferim!

• #1 Top Ten Films of 2016: Michał Oleszczyk: RogerEbert.com
• #3 Best Films of 2016: David Sterritt: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• #3 Best Films of 2016: Brandon Harris: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #4 Best Films of 2016: Patrick Gamble: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #5 10 Best Movies of 2016: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• #5 Best Films of 2016: Jordan Hoffman: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• #6 Best Films of 2016: Daniel Schindel: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• #9 Best Films of 2016: Mike Rubin: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• #36 50 Best Films of 2016: Slant

• Best Films of 2015: Denis Côté: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2016: Bill Stamets: RogerEbert.com

Everybody in Our Family

• #3 Top Ten Films of 2013: Michał Oleszczyk: RogerEbert.com

• Top 5 Films of 2012: Geoff Andrew: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Top 5 Films of 2012: Nick Roddick: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll