Year-End Lists

Blitz

• 1 Best Movies of 2024: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 5 The 15 Best Films of 2024: Clarisse Loughrey: Independent
• 6 Best Films of 2024: Sophie Brown: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 6 The Best Movies of 2024: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 9 Top Ten Films of 2024: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
• 10 Best Films of 2024: Alex Ramon: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 51 51 Favourite Films of 2024: Guy Lodge

• The 20 Best Films of 2024: BBC: BBC Culture
• Favorite Films of 2024: K. Austin Collins: Slate: Movie Club
• The Best Movies of 2024: Peter Debruge: Variety 10 more for good measure
• 10 Best Movies of 2024: Odie Henderson: Boston Globe Runner-up numbers 11-20
• The Best Films of 2024: Justin Chang: New Yorker Nine honorable mentions, in alphabetical order
• The Best Films of 2024: Keith Phipps: The Reveal Honorable mention

Sunshine State

• The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2023: Jordan Cronk

Occupied City

• 4 Best Movies of 2023: Manohla Dargis: New York Times
• 6 Best Films of 2024: David Parkinson: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 17 Best Films of 2023: Vadim Rizov: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 29 The 30 Best Films of 2024: Little White Lies
• 49 The 60 Best Movies of 2024: Max Cea: Esquire

• Favorite Movies of 2023: Sarah Welch-Larson
• Best Films of 2023: Sheri Linden: Hollywood Reporter Honorable mention

Small Axe

• 1 The 30 Best Films of 2020: Little White Lies
• 1 Best Movies of 2020: Ann Hornaday: Washington Post
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Jake Coyle: AP
• 3 Favorite Movies of 2020: Hyperallergic
• 3 The 50 Best TV Show of 2020: Guardian
• 4 The Best TV Shows of 2020: The Ringer
• 4 The Best 10 Movies of 2020: Randy Myers: Mercury News
• 4 The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020: Sonia Saraiya: Vanity Fair
• 14 The 25 Best TV Shows of 2020: A.V. Club

• Top 10 Films of 2020: Jennings Collins: Cinema Etc. Honorable mention

Small Axe: Education

• 1 Top 10 Films of 2020: Tasha Robinson: Filmspotting
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Katie Walsh
• 23 The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 81 My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey

Small Axe: Alex Wheatle

• 1 Top 10 Films of 2020: Tasha Robinson: Filmspotting
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Katie Walsh
• 22 The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 49 My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey

• Best Movies of 2020: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Other movies I'm grateful for

Small Axe: Red, White and Blue

• 1 Top 10 Films of 2020: Tasha Robinson: Filmspotting
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Katie Walsh
• 5 Top 20 Movies of 2020: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone
• 6 The Best Films of 2020: Mike D’Angelo: A.V. Club
• 10 The Best Films of 2020: Roxana Hadadi: A.V. Club
• 21 The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 30 My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey
• 46 The Best Films of 2020: Slant

• Best Films of 2020: Ed Gonzalez: Slant Honorable mention
• Top 10 Movies of 2020: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune Runners-up, 11-20, in alphabetical order

Small Axe: Lovers Rock

• 1 The Best Movies of 2020: The Ringer
• 1 The Best Films of 2020: Christina Newland: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 1 The Best Movies of 2020: Angelica Jade Bastién: New York: Vulture
• 1 The Best Films of 2020: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 1 The Ten Best Films of 2020: RogerEbert.com
• 1 Top 10 Movies of 2020: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2020: Monica Castillo: RogerEbert.com
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2020: Keith Phipps: The Next Picture Show
• 1 Top 10 Films of 2020: Tasha Robinson: Filmspotting
• 1 Best Movies of 2020: Ty Burr: Boston Globe
• 1 Top Ten Films of 2020: Josh Larsen
• 1 Top 10 Films of 2020: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
• 2 Top 50 Films of 2020: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 2 The 20 Best Movies of 2020: David Fear: Rolling Stone
• 2 The 15 Best Movies of 2020: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
• 2 The 2020 Jim Ridley Film Poll: Nashville Scene
• 2 The 10 Best Films of 2020: Jason Shawhan: Nashville Scene
• 2 The Best Movies of 2020: Alison Willmore: New York: Vulture
• 2 The Best Movies of 2020: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Susannah Gruder: Screen Slate
• 2 The 10 Best Films of 2020: David Sims: Atlantic
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Katie Walsh
• 2 The Best Movies of 2020: Alison Willmore: Slate: Movie Club
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2020: Odie Henderson: RogerEbert.com
• 3 The 25 Best Movies of 2020: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2020: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
• 3 Top Ten Films of 2020: Florence Almozini: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 3 Top 20 Films of 2020: Screen Slate
• 3 Best Films of 2020: Lindsey Bahr: AP
• 3 Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film Society of Lincoln Center
• 3 10 Best Movies of 2020: Peter Travers: ABC News: Good Morning America
• 4 Best Movies of 2020: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 4 Top 10 Films of 2020: Scott Tobias
• 5 Best Films of 2020: A.V. Club
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2020: Cinema Scope
• 5 The 10 Best Movies of 2020: Stephanie Zacharek: Time
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2020: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
• 5 Favorite Fifteen Films of 2020: Marya E. Gates
• 5 Top 25 Films of 2020: In Review Online
• 6 The Best Films of 2020: Katie Rife: A.V. Club
• 6 The Best Films of 2020: Noel Murray: A.V. Club
• 6 The Best Films of 2020: Vikram Murthi: A.V. Club
• 6 The Best Films of 2020: Charles Bramesco: A.V. Club
• 7 Top 20 Movies of 2020: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone
• 7 The Best Films of 2020: Slant
• 7 Ten Best Films of 2020: Michael J. Anderson
• 7 The Best Movies of 2020: Empire
• 8 The Best Films of 2020: A.A. Dowd: A.V. Club
• 8 The 25 Best Films of 2020: The Playlist
• 8 Best Films of 2020: Reverse Shot
• 8 Top 10 Films of 2020: Sarah Williams: Cinema Etc.
• 8 The 50 Best Movies of 2020: Paste
• 8 The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 8 Best Movies of 2020: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• 9 The Best Films of 2020: David Rooney: Hollywood Reporter
• 9 The Best Films of 2020: Mike D’Angelo: A.V. Club
• 9 Top 25 Films of 2020: Robert Daniels
• 9 Top 10 Films of 2020: Cole Duffy: Cinema Etc.
• 9 Favorite Films of 2020: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
• 10 The Best Movies of 2020: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• 10 The 10 Best Films of 2020: David Morgan: CBS News
• 11 My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey
• 14 The 25 Best Films of 2020: David Ehrlich
• 15 The Best Movies of 2020: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture

• Top Ten Films of 2020: Sheila O’Malley: RogerEbert.com
• The Best Movies of 2020: Joshua Rivera: Verge
• The 10 Best Films from 2020: Sean Burns: WBUR: ARTery
• Best Films of 2020: Steve Erickson: GCN
• Top Ten Films of 2020: Clémence Polès Farhang
• Favorite Movies of 2020: Barack Obama
• The Best Movies of 2020: Uproxx
• The 15 Best Movies of 2020: Vogue
• The Best Films of 2020: Economist
• Best Films of 2020: Spectrum Culture
• The Best Movies of 2020: Dana Stevens: Slate Plus five runners-up
• Favorite Films of 2020: Genevieve Koski: The Next Picture Show 6-20 (unranked, alphabetical order)
• Best Films of 2020: Ed Gonzalez: Slant Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2020: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2020: Jeffrey M. Anderson: SF Examiner Runner-up
• The 17 Best Movies of 2020: Matthew Jacobs: HuffPost Honorable mention

Small Axe: Mangrove

• 1 The Best Movies of 2020: The Ringer
• 1 Best Movies of 2020: Owen Gleiberman: Variety
• 1 Top 10 Films of 2020: Tasha Robinson: Filmspotting
• 2 Best Films of 2020: Katie Walsh
• 2 My Favorite Movies of 2020: Sean Fennessey
• 5 Top 20 Films of 2020: Joshua Rothkopf
• 5 The Best Films of 2020: Beatrice Loayza: A.V. Club
• 5 Top 10 Films of 2020: Todd McCarthy: Deadline
• 6 Best Movies of 2020: Peter Debruge: Variety
• 8 Top 10 Movies of 2020: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• 8 The Best Movies of 2020: Anita Katz: SF Examiner
• 9 Top Ten Films of 2020: Dave Gonzalez: Fighting in the War Room
• 10 10 Best Films of 2020: John Waters: Artforum
• 10 Top Ten Films of 2020: Josh Larsen
• 11 The Best Movies of 2020: Empire
• 12 The 25 Best Movies of 2020: Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
• 13 The Best Films of 2020: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• 15 The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker
• 15 The Best Movies of 2020: Bilge Ebiri: New York: Vulture
• 16 Top 25 Films of 2020: Robert Daniels
• 17 The Best Movies of 2020: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
• 35 Best Movies of 2020: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 43 Top 50 Films of 2020: Filmmaker Magazine: Village Voice Film Poll
• 43 The 50 Best Movies of 2020: Paste
• 45 The Best Movies of 2020: Nick Schager: Esquire

• The 10 Best Movies of 2020: Stephanie Zacharek: Time Honorable mention
• Top Ten Films of 2020: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com Runner-up
• Top 10 Films of 2020: Cole Duffy: Cinema Etc. Honorable mention
• The Best Movies of 2020: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times Honorable mention
• The 15 Best Movies of 2020: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel Runner-up

Widows

• 1 Best Films of 2018: David Sims: Atlantic
• 2 Top Ten Films of 2018: Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room
• 2 20 Best Films of 2018: Time Out London
• 3 10 Best Films of 2018: Mark Kermode: Observer
• 3 20 Best Movies Of 2018: Matthew Jacobs: HuffPost
• 3 Top 10 Movies of 2018: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 4 Top Ten Films of 2018: Katey Rich: Fighting in the War Room
• 5 Favourite Films of 2018: Scout Tafoya
• 5 Top Ten Films of 2018: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com
• 5 Best Movies of 2018: Mark Olsen: Los Angeles Times
• 6 Top Ten Films of 2018: Kristen Lopez: RogerEbert.com
• 6 10 Best Movies of 2018: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• 7 Best Films of 2018: Christopher Orr: Atlantic
• 8 Top Movies of 2018: Mara Reinstein: Us Weekly
• 8 Top 20 Films of 2018: Genevieve Koski
• 8 Top 15 Films of 2018: Jesse Hassenger: A.V. Club
• 8 The Best Movies of 2018: Cary Darling: Chron
• 9 Top 10 Films of 2018: Caitlin Quinlan: Little White Lies
• 9 Favorite Films of 2018: Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine
• 10 Best Films of 2018: Matt Singer: ScreenCrush
• 11 25 Best Films of 2018: David Ehrlich
• 11 Best Movies of 2018: Eric Kohn: IndieWire
• 11 50 Best Movies of 2018: Paste
• 13 Top 15 Films of 2018: Katie Rife: A.V. Club
• 13 20 Best Movies of 2018: Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
• 13 Top 15 Films of 2018: Noel Murray: A.V. Club
• 14 Best Movies of 2018: Justin Chang: Los Angeles Times
• 18 50 Best Movies of 2018: Film School Rejects
• 25 Best Films of 2018: Much Ado About Cinema
• 27 30 Best Films of 2018: Little White Lies
• 27 Best Movies of 2018: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 27 Top 50 Movies of the 2010s: Roxana Hadadi
• 49 Top 50 Films of 2018: Film Stage
• 32 25 Best Films of 2018: The Playlist After that

• Favorite Movies of 2018: Aisha Harris
• Favorite Movies Of 2018: NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour
• Some 2018 Releases I Liked: Karina Longworth
• Top Ten Films of 2018: Odie Henderson: RogerEbert.com Honorable mention
• Top 10 Movies of 2018: Tomris Laffly: Time Out New York The next ten
• Ten Best Movies of 2018: Stephanie Zacharek: Time Honorable mention
• Best Black Films of the 2010s: Jourdain Searles
• Best Movies of 2018: The Ringer With Apologies To

Ashes

• 6 10 Best Films of 2015: James Quandt: Artforum

• 15 Favorite Films of 2016: Dennis Cooper

12 Years a Slave

• 1 Top 50 Films of 2013: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 1 Top 27 Movies of 2013: Wesley Morris: Grantland
• 1 Top 15 Films of 2013: Keith Phipps: The Dissolve
• 1 The Best Films of 2013: Scott MacDonald: A.V. Club
• 1 The Top 10 Films of 2013: Katey Rich: Vanity Fair
• 1 Top 10 Movies of 2013: Jake Coyle: AP
• 2 20 Best Films of 2013: A.V. Club
• 2 20 Best Films of 2013: The Dissolve
• 2 50 Best Movies of 2013: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 2 35 Favorite Films of 2013: A.O. Scott: New York Times
• 2 The Best Films of 2013: Sam Adams: A.V. Club
• 2 The Best Movies of 2013: Jordan Hoffman: ScreenCrush
• 3 Top 15 Films of 2013: Noel Murray: The Dissolve
• 3 13 Best Films of 2013: Stephen Holden: New York Times
• 3 Best Films of 2013: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 4 25 Best Films of 2013: David Ehrlich
• 4 Top 20 Films of 2013: In Review Online
• 5 Top 15 Films of 2013: Nathan Rabin: The Dissolve
• 5 Top Ten Movies of 2013: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader
• 5 Top 15 Films of 2013: Genevieve Koski: The Dissolve
• 5 The Top 10 Films Of 2013: Richard Lawson: Vanity Fair
• 5 Top 15 Films of 2013: Tasha Robinson: The Dissolve
• 6 Top 16 Films of 2013: Brian Darr
• 6 The Best Films of 2013: A.A. Dowd: A.V. Club
• 7 Favorite Fifteen Films of 2013: Marya E. Gates
• 8 20 Best Films of 2013: Scott Foundas: Variety Top Ten, in order
• 8 30 Top Films of 2013: Glenn Kenny
• 9 Top 15 Films of 2013: Matt Singer: The Dissolve
• 9 Top 10 Movies of 2013: Mara Reinstein: Us Weekly
• 10 The Best Films of 2013: Ben Kenigsberg: A.V. Club
• 10 Top 15 Films of 2013: Scott Tobias: The Dissolve
• 11 The Best Films of 2013: Nick Schager: A.V. Club
• 12 The 40 Best Films of the 2010s: Independent
• 16 The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s: Rolling Stone
• 17 Top 100 Films of the 2010s: Consequence
• 17 The Best Films of the 2010s: RogerEbert.com
• 18 25 Best Films of 2013: Slant
• 18 The 25 Best Movies of the 2010s: Jordan Ruimy: World of Reel
• 32 The 50 Best Movies of the 2010s: Time Out New York
• 33 Top 50 Films of the 2010s: The Young Folks
• 43 The 100 Best Films of the 2010s: The Playlist
• 45 100 Best Films of the 2010s: Insider
• 60 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: Paste
• 67 The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s: A.V. Club

• Top 39 Movies of 2013: Manohla Dargis: New York Times Top 16, Alphabetically
• Best Movies of 2013: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
• Top 25 Films of the 2010s: Matt Goldberg: Collider Honorable mention

Shame

• 1 Best Films of 2011: David Fear: Time Out New York
• 2 Best Films of 2011: Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
• 2 Best Films of 2011: Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
• 5 Best Films of 2011: Kristopher Tapley: HitFix
• 6 Top 10 Films of 2011: Sean Burns: Philadelphia Weekly
• 10 Best Films of 2011: Alison Willmore: A.V. Club Top 15
• 11 Best Films of 2011: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
• 12 Favorite Fifteen Films of 2011: Marya E. Gates
• 17 25 Best Films of 2011: David Ehrlich
• 18 Best Films of 2011: Village Voice: Village Voice Film Poll
• 18 20 Best Films of 2011: Skandies
• 21 50 Best Released Films of 2011: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
• 90 The 100 Best Films of the 2010s: The Playlist

• Top 5 Films of 2012: Ian Christie: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
• Best Films of 2011: Keith Phipps: A.V. Club The next five