Year-End Lists

Gift

• 47 Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage

Evil Does Not Exist

• 1 Best Films of 2024: Chloe Lizotte: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2024: Vikram Murthi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2024: In Review Online
• 2 Best Films of 2024: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 3 Top 10 Films of 2024: Ryan Swen
• 3 The Best Films of 2024: Justin Chang: New Yorker
• 3 Best Films of 2024: Benoit Rouilly
• 4 The Ten Best Films of 2024: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
• 4 Best Films of 2024: Lovia Gyarkye: Hollywood Reporter
• 4 The Best Movies of 2024: Sam Adams: Slate
• 4 Best Films of 2024: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 100 Favorite Movies of 2024: Sean Fennessey
• 5 Best Movies of 2024: Alissa Wilkinson: New York Times
• 5 Best Films of 2024: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2024: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 The Best Movies of 2024: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
• 7 The 25 Best Films of 2024: Slant
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2024: Cahiers du Cinéma
• 7 Best Films of 2024: Reverse Shot
• 9 The Best Films of 2024: Scott Tobias: The Reveal
• 9 Best Movies of 2024: Screen Slate
• 9 Best Movies of 2024: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 9 The 25 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire
• 9 Best Films of 2024: Caden Mark Gardner: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 10 The 10 Best Movies of 2024: David Sims: Atlantic
• 10 The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire
• 12 Top 50 Films of 2024: Film Stage
• 12 The 50 Best Films of 2024: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 13 The Best Movies of 2024: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 13 The 25 Best Films of 2024: David Ehrlich
• 5 Best Films of 2024: Mark Kermode Joint 5th
• 15 The Best Films of 2024: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
• 18 Our Top Films of 2024: Les Inrocks
• 19 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 20 The 50 Best Films of 2023: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 44 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Guardian
• 45 The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Paste
• 4 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll Best International Film

• Best Films of 2024: Spectrum Culture
• Best Movies of 2024: Scott Renshaw: Salt Lake City Weekly 6-10, alphabetical
• Best Films of 2023: Passerby More of our favorite films include
• The Very Best Films of 2024: AnOther Magazine
• Favorite Films of 2024: K. Austin Collins: Slate: Movie Club
• The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024: A.S. Hamrah: n+1
• 10 Best Movies of 2024: Nick Schager: Daily Beast Honorable mention
• 10 Best Movies of 2024: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe Runner-up numbers 11-20
• Best Films of 2024: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention
• Best Movies of 2024: Jake Coyle: AP Also
• The Best 15 Films of 2024: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win 15 Very Honorable Mentions (Though There Could Be More)
• The Best Movies of 2024: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush Honorable mention
• Best Movies of 2024: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Also recommended
• 10 Best Films of 2024: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel Additional films this year I admired or loved

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

• 1 The Best Movies of 2021: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
• 1 The Best Movies of 2021: Ty Burr
• 1 Best Movies of 2021: Chloe Lizotte: Screen Slate
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Courtney Duckworth: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Jordan Raup: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Our Top 10 Films of 2021: Hyperallergic
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Willow Maclay: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Carlos Valladares: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 3 Top 50 Films of 2021: Film Stage
• 3 The Best Movies of 2021: Angelica Jade Bastién: New York: Vulture
• 3 Best Films of 2021: Elena Lazic: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 3 Best Films of 2021: K.F. Watanabe: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 4 Our Top Films of 2022: Les Inrocks
• 4 Top 25 Movies of 2021: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone
• 4 The 10 Best Films of 2021: David Morgan: CBS News
• 4 Best Films of 2021: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2022: Cahiers du Cinéma
• 5 Ten Best Films of 2021: Michael J. Anderson
• 5 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Slant
• 5 The Best Films of 2021: Katie Rife: A.V. Club
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Azadeh Jafari: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2021: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 6 Top Ten Films of 2021: Cinema Scope
• 6 Top 25 Films of 2021: In Review Online
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Top 20 Movies of 2021: Odie Henderson: Slate: Movie Club
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Dennis Lim: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Mackenzie Lukenbill: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Andréa Picard: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2021: Reverse Shot
• 8 The Best Films of 2021: Charles Bramesco: A.V. Club
• 8 The Best Films of 2021: Vikram Murthi: A.V. Club
• 8 The Best Films of 2021: Scott Tobias: The Reveal The Top 15
• 8 The 21 Best Movies of 2021: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
• 8 Best Films of 2021: Matthew Eng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 9 Top 10 Films of 2022: Marilou Duponchel: Les Inrocks
• 9 Best Movies of 2021: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Vadim Rizov: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 10 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 11 Best Films of 2021: Adam Nayman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 12 Best Films of 2021: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 12 Best Films of 2021: Adrian Curry: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 13 Best Movies of 2021: Screen Slate
• 13 Best Films of 2021: Jonathan Romney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 15 The Best Films of 2021: A.V. Club
• 16 Top 50 Films of 2021: Robert Daniels
• 16 Best Films of 2021: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 17 Best Films of 2021: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 24 The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire
• 27 The 50 Best Movies of 2021: Paste

• Best Films of 2022: Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Matías Piñeiro: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Benoit Rouilly
• Top 10 Films of 2022: Emily Barnett: Les Inrocks
• 21 Most Underrated Movies of 2021: Cassie da Costa: Vanity Fair
• Best Films of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN
• Best Films of 2021: Spectrum Culture
• Favorite Movies of 2022: Barack Obama
• Best Films of 2021: Erika Balsom: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Caden Mark Gardner: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Screen Queens One Vote Short of Joining the Top 10
• The Best Movies of 2021: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times Honorable mention
• The Ten Best Films of 2021: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid Honorable mention

Drive My Car

• 1 Best Films of 2021: Lovia Gyarkye: Hollywood Reporter
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2021: Tomris Laffly: RogerEbert.com
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Florence Almozini: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
• 1 Best Movies of 2021: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• 1 Best Movies of 2021: Chloe Lizotte: Screen Slate
• 1 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Slant
• 1 Best Movies of 2021: Screen Slate
• 1 The Best Movies of 2021: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
• 1 20 Essential Films of 2021: Les Inrocks
• 1 The Best Movies of 2021: Adam Nayman: The Ringer
• 1 The Best Films of 2021: Scott Tobias: The Reveal The Top 15
• 1 20 Best Movies of 2021: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• 1 Top 50 Films of 2021: Film Stage
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Jamsheed Akrami: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Leonardo Goi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Azadeh Jafari: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Dennis Lim: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Carlos Valladares: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2021: Adam Nayman: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2021: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2021: Dave Gonzalez: Fighting in the War Room
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Jourdain Searles: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Jon Frosch: Hollywood Reporter
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2021: Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2021: Jana Monji: RogerEbert.com
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Cassie da Costa: Artforum
• 2 The 10 Best Movies of 2021: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair
• 2 Our Top 10 Films of 2021: Hyperallergic
• 2 Best Films of 2021: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Top 10 Films of 2021: Marilou Duponchel: Les Inrocks
• 2 Best Movies of 2021: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
• 2 The 50 Best Movies of 2021: Paste
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Reverse Shot
• 2 The Best Movies of 2021: Ty Burr
• 2 The Ten Best Films of 2021: RogerEbert.com
• 2 Favorite Films of 2021: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
• 2 The Ten Best Films of 2021: Jeffrey M. Anderson: Combustible Celluloid
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Adrian Curry: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Matthew Eng: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2021: Kaleem Hawa: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 3 The 30 Best Films of 2021: Little White Lies
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2021: Cinema Scope
• 3 Ten Best Films of 2021: Michael J. Anderson
• 3 Best Films of 2021: Sheri Linden: Hollywood Reporter
• 3 The Best Films of 2021: Keith Phipps: The Reveal The Top 15
• 3 The 25 Best Movies of 2021: IndieWire
• 3 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 3 Top 10 Best Movies of 2021: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• 3 Top 25 Films of 2021: In Review Online
• 3 Best Films of 2021: Leo Goldsmith: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 4 The Best Films of 2021: Caroline Siede: A.V. Club
• 4 The 50 Best Films of 2021: Guardian
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2021: Cahiers du Cinéma
• 4 The Best Films of 2021: Owen Gleiberman: Variety
• 4 Top 25 Movies of 2021: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone
• 4 The Best Films of 2021: Carlos Aguilar: A.V. Club
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2021: Matt Zoller Seitz: RogerEbert.com
• 4 The Best Movies of 2021: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
• 4 Top 20 Movies of 2021: Bilge Ebiri: Slate: Movie Club
• 4 Best Films of 2021: Edo Choi: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2021: Andréa Picard: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 4 Best Films of 2021: Jonathan Romney: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2021: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
• 5 The 10 Best Films of 2021: David Morgan: CBS News
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 5 The Best Movies of 2021: Angelica Jade Bastién: New York: Vulture
• 5 The Best Movies of 2021: Nick Schager: Esquire
• 5 The 10 Best Movies of 2021: Entertainment Weekly
• 5 The 25 Best Films of 2021: David Ehrlich
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Eric Hynes: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Courtney Duckworth: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Jordan Raup: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 5 Best Films of 2021: Jordan Cronk: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2021: Jake Coyle: AP
• 6 Films of 2021: The Skinny
• 6 The 10 Best Movies of 2021: Brian Truitt: USA Today
• 6 The Best Movies of 2021: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
• 7 Best Movies of 2021: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Clinton Krute: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 7 Best Films of 2021: Christina Newland: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2021: Christina Newland: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 8 Top 10 Films of 2021: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
• 8 Best Films of 2021: Gavin Smith: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2021: K.F. Watanabe: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2021: Amy Taubin: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Susannah Gruder
• 9 Top 50 Films of 2021: Robert Daniels
• 9 The Best Movies of 2021: Sean Fennessey: The Ringer
• 9 Best Films of 2021: Devika Girish: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 10 10 Best Movies of 2021: Peter Travers: ABC News: Good Morning America
• 10 The 10 Best Movies of 2021: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
• 10 Best Films of 2021: Nick Davis: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 11 Best Films of 2021: Eugene Hernandez: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 11 Best Films of 2021: Manu Yáñez-Murillo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 12 Top 20 Movies of 2021: Odie Henderson: Slate: Movie Club
• 14 The 20 Best Films of 2021: Time Out London
• 16 Best Films of 2021: Beatrice Loayza: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 20 The Best Films of 2021: A.V. Club
• 20 The Best Movies of 2021: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 22 The 25 Best Films Of 2021: The Playlist
• 55 My Favourite Films of 2021: Scout Tafoya

• Best Films of 2021: Matías Piñeiro: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Screen Queens
• Top Ten Films of 2021: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• Top Ten Films of 2021: Jordan Cronk
• The Best Films of 2021: Ryan Gilbey: New Statesman
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Benoit Rouilly
• Best Films of 2021: Molly Haskell: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: James Wham: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN
• Best Films of 2021: Phoebe Chen: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Best Movies of 2021: Joe Morgenstern: Wall Street Journal
• Best Films of 2021: Spectrum Culture
• The Best Films of 2021: Economist
• Favorite Movies of 2021: Barack Obama
• Best Films of 2021: Erika Balsom: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Caden Mark Gardner: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Violet Lucca: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Sheila O’Malley: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Isabel Stevens: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Tyler Wilson: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• Best Films of 2021: Monica Castillo: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• The Best Movies of 2021: Polygon
• Top 10 Films of 2021: Ross Bonaime: Collider Runners-Up, in alphabetical order
• Top Ten Films of 2021: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Notable Film Releases of 2021: Glenn Kenny

Asako I & II

• 1 The Best Films of 2019: Lawrence Garcia: A.V. Club
• 1 Favorite Films of 2019: Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2019: Brian Darr: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2018: Vadim Rizov: Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review
• 3 The Best Films of 2019: Beatrice Loayza: A.V. Club
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2019: Vadim Rizov: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2019: Clémence Polès Farhang
• 6 Top Ten Films of 2019: C.J. Prince: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 7 The 15 Best Movies of 2019: K. Austin Collins: Vanity Fair
• 7 Top Ten Films of 2019: Gerald Peary: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Top 15 Feature Films of 2019: Hyperallergic
• 8 Top Ten Films of 2019: Alice Stoehr: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 The Best Films of 2019: Vikram Murthi: A.V. Club
• 10 The 25 Best Films of 2019: Glenn Kenny
• 14 Top 20 Films of 2019: In Review Online
• 16 Best Films of 2019: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 16 Best Films of 2019: A.V. Club
• 16 Top 20 Films of 2019: Jordan Cronk
• 17 Best Films of 2018: Philip Concannon
• 18 Best Films of 2019: Susannah Gruder
• 19 Top 50 Films of 2019: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 21 Top 25 Films of 2019: Michael Glover Smith Runner-up
• 40 The 25 Best Films of 2019: Slant Runner-up
• 75 Top 100 Films of the 2010s: In Review Online

• Top 10 Films of 2019: Brian Darr: Senses of Cinema: Senses of Cinema World Poll
• Top Ten Films of 2018: Cinema Scope Special Mentions
• Best Films of 2019: Ed Gonzalez: Slant Honorable mention

Happy Hour

• 1 Best Films of 2016: Alex Engquist: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Max O’Connell: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Best Films of 2016: Vadim Rizov: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 Best Films of 2016: Ed Gonzalez: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 50 Best Films of 2016: Slant
• 4 10 Best Movies of 2016: Melissa Anderson: Artforum
• 4 Best Films of 2016: Eric Henderson: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2016: Tina Hassannia: RogerEbert.com
• 5 Top 10 Films of 2016: In Review Online
• 5 Best Films of 2016: Daryl Chin: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Jay Kuehner: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Kenji Fujishima: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Willow Maclay: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 6 Best Films of 2016: Calum Marsh: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 8 Best Films of 2016: Jake Cole: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 9 35 Best Movies of 2016: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 9 Best Films of 2016: Mallory Andrews: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 Best Films of 2016: Greg Cwik: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 10 The 30 Best Movies of the 2010s: K. Austin Collins: Vanity Fair
• 22 Top 50 Films of 2016: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 35 Top 50 Films of 2016: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 43 Top 100 Films of the 2010s: In Review Online
• 85 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: A.V. Club
• 94 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: IndieWire