Rian Johnson - Year-End Lists

Wake Up Dead Man
- Best Movies of 2025: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly Places 1-5, alphabetical
- Favorite Movies of 2025: Sarah Welch-Larson
- The Best Films of 2025: Economist
- The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
- The 25 Best Films of 2025: BBC: BBC Culture
- Favorite Films of 2025: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine Honorable mention
- Top 10 Films of 2025: Victor Morton Honorable Mentions: English Fiction
- The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Amy Nicholson: Los Angeles Times Honorable mention
- The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate Honorable mention
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- Best Films of 2025: Alex Ramon: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Honorable mention
- The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal Honorable mention
- The Best Movies of 2025: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush Honorable mention
- The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr Movies I liked but not quite enough to make this list; your mileage may vary
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Top Ten Films of 2022: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- Best Films of 2022: Jake Coyle: AP Also
- Top Ten Films of 2022: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid Runner-up
- The 10 Best Movies of 2022: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel Runner-up
- Notable Films Of 2022: Glenn Kenny Top Stuff
- Best Movies of 2022: A.O. Scott: New York Times And 20 more …
- The Top 20 Best Films Of The Year 2022: Mark Hughes: Forbes Honorable mention
- The Best Movies of 2022: Polygon The Best of the Rest
- Top 20 Films of 2022: Ty Burr Runner-up meaning they’re really good and you should see them too.
- The 25 Best Movies of 2022: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox Honorable mentions, a.k.a. great films you should seek out
- Best Movies of 2022: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times And I also recommend
Knives Out
- The Best Films of 2019: Christina Newland: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
- The Best Films of 2019: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal Other Choices in Alphabetical Order
- Best Films of 2019: Spectrum Culture
- The Best Films Released in 2019: Economist
- Favorite Movies Of 2019: NPR
- The 10 Best Films of 2019: David Sims: Atlantic Honorable mention
- The 10 Best Movies of 2019: Dana Stevens: Slate Runner-up
- Best Films of 2019: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
- Best Films of 2019: Keith Uhlich: Slant Honorable mention
- Top Ten Films of 2019: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- Top 10 Films of 2019: Allison Shoemaker: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- The Best Movies of 2019: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune 11-20, alphabetically
- Best Films of 2019: Jake Coyle: AP Honorable mention
- Top 10 Films of 2019: Justine Smith: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- The 10 Best Films of 2017: David Morgan: CBS News
- Best Films of 2017: Siddhant Adlakha: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Sean Burns: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- The 10 Best Films of 2017: Jourdain Searles
- Best Films of 2017: Kate Erbland: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Will Leitch: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Josh Spiegel: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Christian Blauvelt: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Molly Faust: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Kristy Puchko: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Best Films of 2017: Alan Zilberman: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Favorite Movies of 2017: NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour
- 20 Best Films of 2017: Mark Olsen: Los Angeles Times And another 10 that could easily have been slotted in somewhere (alphabetical)
- Top Ten Films of 2017: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid Runner-up
- 32 Best Films of 2017: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times Plus 20 honorable mentions (in alphabetical order)
- The Best Films of the 2010s: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention
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