Richard Linklater - Year-End Lists

Blue Moon
- The Best Movies of 2025: Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal
- The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025: Them
- The 10 Best Movies of 2025: Dana Stevens: Slate
- The Best Films of 2025: Sean Burns: WBUR
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Nell Minow: RogerEbert.com
- Best Films of 2025: Michael Koresky: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- The 11 Best Movies of 2025: Vanity Fair
- Best Films of 2025: Spectrum Culture
- The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
- Best Films of 2025: Caroline Golum: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
- Best Films of 2025: Öykü Sofuoğlu: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- Best Films of 2025: Robert Daniels: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- The Best Movies Of 2025: Uproxx
- The Ten Best Films of 2025: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid Runner-up
- The Ten Best Films of 2025: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- 10 Best Movies of 2025: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe Runner-up 11-20
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- Best Movies of 2025: Lindsey Bahr: AP Also
- Best Movies of 2025: Alissa Wilkinson: New York Times Also recommended
- Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Other movies that I liked and urge you to see
- Best Films of 2025: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll 25 More
- The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal Honorable mention
- The 20 Best Movies of 2025: David Fear: Rolling Stone Special shout-outs to
- The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr Movies I liked but not quite enough to make this list; your mileage may vary
Nouvelle Vague
- The Best Movies of 2025: Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
- Top Ten Films of 2025: Craig Lindsey: RogerEbert.com
- Best Films of 2025: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- Top 10 Films of 2025: Victor Morton Honorable Mentions: English Fiction
- The Best Movies of 2025: Peter Debruge: Variety 10 more for good measure
- Best Movies of 2025: Sheri Linden: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
- The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr Runners-up, in alphabetical order
- Top 10 Films of 2025: Ryan Swen Not to discount these
- Best Movies of 2025: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Other movies that I liked and urge you to see
- The Best Films of 2025: Scott Tobias: The Reveal Honorable mention
- The Best Films of 2025: Keith Phipps: The Reveal Honorable mention
God Save Texas: Hometown Prison
- 3 Best Films of 2024: Michael Leader: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
- Best Films of 2024: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Twenty More
Hit Man
- Best Films of 2024: Lucia Ahrensdorf: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- Best Films of 2024: Dorota Lech: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
- The Best Movies Of 2024: Uproxx
- Favorite Films of 2024: K. Austin Collins: Slate: Movie Club
- Best Movies of 2024: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly Honorable Mentions, alphabetical
- Favorite Films of 2024: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine Runner-up
- The 10 Best Movies of 2024: Entertainment Weekly Honorable mention
- Top 10 Movies of 2024: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune Runner-up
- Top Ten Films of 2024: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
- The Ten Best Films of 2024: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid Runner-up
- Best Films of 2024: Nicolas Rapold: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll Twenty More
- The Best 15 Films of 2024: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win 15 Very Honorable Mentions (Though There Could Be More)
- 10 Best Films of 2024: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel Additional films this year I admired or loved
- The Best Films of 2024: Keith Phipps: The Reveal Honorable mention
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- 6 Top Ten Films of 2019: Jaime Christley: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
Last Flag Flying
- 5 Top Ten Films of 2017: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
- 5 Top Ten Films of 2017: Odie Henderson: RogerEbert.com
- Best Films of 2017: Sean Mulvihill: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Favorite Films of 2017: Ben Sachs: Chicago Reader Honorable mention
Everybody Wants Some!!
Boyhood
- Best Films of 2014: Diego Lerer: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
- Top 20 Movies of 2014: Dana Stevens: Slate Top Ten, in alphabetical order
- Favorite Films of the 2010s: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
- 10 Best Movies of 2014: David Denby: New Yorker The others, in alphabetical order
- The Best Films of the 2010s: Benzine
- 20 Best Movies of 2014: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
- Top 30 Movies of 2014: Wesley Morris: Grantland 20 more that easily could be one of the 10
- Top 25 Films of the 2010s: Matt Goldberg: Collider Honorable mention
Before Midnight
- Best Films of 2013: Diego Lerer: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
- 21 Best Movies of 2013: Dana Stevens: Slate Top Ten, in alphabetical order
- The 10 Best Movies of the 2010s: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
- Top 39 Movies of 2013: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Top 16, Alphabetically
- 20 Best Films of 2013: Scott Foundas: Variety Next Ten, in alphabetical order
- 35 Favorite Films of 2013: A.O. Scott: New York Times And, Alphabetically
- The Best Films of the 2010s: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention
Brenie
- 16 27 Best Movies of 2012: Richard Brody: New Yorker
Bernie
- Top 5 Films of 2012: Dan Callahan: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
- Top 10 Films of 2012: Nick Pinkerton: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
- Top 25 Narrative Films of 2012: Dennis Harvey: San Francisco Bay Guardian
- Favorite 18 Films of 2012: Dan Sallitt Runner-up
- Top 20 Films of 2012: Fernando F. Croce: Slant Honorable mention
- 22 Favorite Movies of 2012: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader Runner-up
- Top 36 Movies of 2012: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Rest of the List, Alphabetically
- Top Films of the 2010s: Nellie Killian