Film Critic Top 1. Lists - Best Movies of 2. Below, we collect every year- end Top Ten list published by major film critics and publications. This page will be updated throughout December and January whenever new lists are published; be sure to check back frequently. Critics pick the best movies of 2.
Recent updates: Added 1/9: Ask. Men, The Hollywood Reporter (The Race), The Playlist (additional critic), San Francisco Examiner, Slashfilm (additional critic)Added 1/6: Movie Mezzanine, Movie Nation, Reverse Shot, Slashfilm (additional critics) Added 1/4: The Buffalo News, Den of Geek [UK], Salon, Slashfilm, Vancouver Sun, Variety/In Contention Added 1/1: Austin Chronicle, Cinema. Dope, Cinephiled, Collider, The Film Stage, Fresno Bee, The Hollywood Reporter/Heat Vision, Ioncinema, Lincoln Journal Star, Maclean's, Miami Herald, New Orleans Times- Picayune, New Republic, Parallax View, Paste, Reelviews, Salt Lake Tribune, Sioux City Journal, Total Film, Tulsa World, Vancouver Weekly Added 1. Metacritic, The Playlist, Tampa Bay Times Added 1.
Omaha World- Herald, USA Today Added 1. Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Crave Online, Detroit News, Digital Spy, NOW Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, The Star- Ledger, Toronto Star, Twitch, Wichita Eagle Added 1. Associated Press, Buzz. Feed, Movie City News, New York Observer, Newsday, SF Weekly, St. Louis Post- Dispatch Added 1. Baltimore City Paper, Chicago Sun- Times, Hit. Fix, Fort Worth Star Telegram, Las Vegas Weekly, Seattle Weekly Added 1.
BBC Talking Movies, Consequence of Sound, The Daily Beast, Empire, Film School Rejects, Flavorwire, Games. Radar, Metro UK, Nylon, Paper, We Got This Covered, Wired Added 1. Den of Geek, Keyframe/Fandor, Metro US, Uncut, Variety (additional critics) Added 1. The Atlantic, BBC, CBC, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Guardian, Christy Lemire, New York Post, Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, Roger.
Ebert. com, Rolling Stone, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Screen Daily, Variety, Wall Street Journal Added 1. AV Club, Huffington Post, The Oregonian, Screen. Crush, Yahoo! Added 1.
Flood, People, San Antonio Current, Village Voice (additional critics) Added 1. Cine. Vue, Details, Village Voice, Vulture (Ebiri), The. Wrap Added 1. Indiewire (addtional lists), LA Weekly, The Stranger Added 1. The Observer, Philadelphia Inquirer Added 1. Slant, The Telegraph Added 1. The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Playlist, Slate, Vogue Added 1.
The New York Times, Time. Out New York, TV Guide Added 1. Washington Post Added 1. Arizona Republic, Entertainment Weekly, MTV Added 1. David Ehrlich, Vanity Fair Added 1.
Scorecard launched with 1. Below is our updated running tally of the films most frequently mentioned by individual critics on the year- end Top Ten lists.
Note that if a critic ranks more than the standard 1. In case of a tie for first or second, each film will receive the full points for that position. Our points system works as follows: 3 points for each 1st place ranking.
Individual critic top ten lists. Below are the 2. 60 individual top ten lists published by the film critics regularly included in Metacritic's score calculations, as well as a few extra lists from additional prominent film sources. Watch The Outfield Vioz. Some critics merely list ten films without ranking them in order; such lists are displayed below, without numbers, in alphabetical order. Arizona Republic.
Bill Goodykoontz View full list. Spotlight. Ex Machina.
Inside Out. Room. It Follows. Mad Max: Fury Road. Brooklyn. Timbuktu.
Carol. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. J. Hoberman View full list. The Assassin. The Guests. No Home Movie. Hard to Be a God. Mexico at Midnight (MOMA screening series)Cemetery of Splendor. Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment)Phoenix. Continuous Variation.
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The Walk. James Quandt Labour in a Single Shot (shorts exhibition)Visit, or Memories and Confessions. Bleak Street. Singularity. Neon Bull. Ashes.
Michaël Borremans retrospective. Lost and Beautiful. Actua IThe Owners of Dixie. Amy Taubin. No Home Movie. The Knick (tv show)The Assassin. Luminous Intimacy: The Cinema of Nathaniel Dorsky and Jerome Hiler (retrospective)Experimenter.
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Amy. My Golden Days. Don’t Blink: Robert Frank. Carol. Mistress America.
John Waters View full list. Helmut Berger, Actor. Cinderella. The Forbidden Room. Tom at the Farm. Mad Max: Fury Road. Carol. The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Tangerine. Fly Colt Fly: Legend of the Barefoot Bandit.
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Love. Artforum. Ask. Men. Olly Richards View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inside Out. Whiplash.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Slow West. The Martian. Steve Jobs. Bridge of Spies. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.
Tangerines. Associated Press. Lindsey Bahr View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road. Clouds of Sils Maria. Ex Machina. Tangerine.
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter. Brooklyn. The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Carol. The Big Short.
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Spy Jake Coyle View full list. Carol. About Elly. Phoenix. Spotlight.
Chi- Raq. Stray Dog. Anomalisa. Creed. Years(tie) The Diary of a Teenage Girl(tie) Testament of Youth. The Atlantic. Christopher Orr View full list.
Spotlight. The Martian. Mad Max: Fury Road. The Big Short. Sicario. Inside Out. The Revenant. Magic Mike XXLStar Wars: The Force Awakens. Steve Jobs. Austin Chronicle.
Marjorie Baumgarten View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Carol. Son of Saul. Spotlight. The Diary of a Teenage Girl. The Big Short. The Martian. Victoria. The Look of Silence. Chi- Raq Steve Davis View full list. Son of Saul. Spotlight. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Inside Out. Steve Jobs. Brooklyn. Amy. Carol. Listen to Me Marlon. Tangerine Kimberley Jones View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem. Inside Out. 45 Years.
Sleeping With Other People. Clouds of Sils Maria. Best of Enemies. The Diary of a Teenage Girl.
Phoenix. James White Josh Kupecki View full list. The Tribe. Son of Saul. Sicario. Spotlight. Mustang. Room. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. Best of Enemies. Phoenix.
Slow West Marc Savlov View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road. Victoria. Son of Saul. Chi- Raq. Spotlight. Tangerine. The Look of Silence. Youth. The Tribe. Phoenix. Mike D’Angelo View full list.
The Duke of Burgundy. Sicario. Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Forbidden Room. Carol. It Follows. Anomalisa. The Martian. Breathe. Tu Dors Nicole. A. A. Dowd View full list. Phoenix. The Look of Silence.
It Follows. 45 Years. Mad Max: Fury Road. Approaching the Elephant.
The Duke of Burgundy. Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem. Son of Saul. About Elly. Jesse Hassenger View full list. It Follows. Mistress America. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Bridge of Spies. Inside Out. Sleeping With Other People. While We're Young.
Ex Machina. Mississippi Grind. Creed. Noel Murray View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road. Inside Out. Brooklyn. The Duke of Burgundy. Mustang. 45 Years.
Phoenix. Carol. Anomalisa. Blind. Adam Nayman View full list. Phoenix. Jauja. The Assassin. The Princess of France. Li’l Quinquin. The Forbidden Room. When Evening Falls On Bucharest Or Metabolism. Horse Money. Amour Fou.
Timbuktu. Katie Rife View full list. The Look of Silence.
Mad Max: Fury Road. The Duke of Burgundy. Room. Tangerine. Sicario.
It Follows. Phoenix. Brooklyn(tie) The End of the Tour(tie) The Martian. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky View full list. Phoenix. It Follows. Hard to Be a God. The Assassin. Bridge of Spies. Mad Max: Fury Road.
The Hateful Eight. Crimson Peak. Sicario. Office. A. V. Club. Baltimore City Paper. Staff View full list. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Tangerine. Spotlight. Hard to Be a God. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution. Dope. Magic Mike XXLStraight Outta Compton. Creed. Field Niggas. BBC. Tom Brook (BBC Talking Movies) Brooklyn. Carol. Love & Mercy.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Amy. Bridge of Spies.
Inside Out. Steve Jobs. Son of Saul. Spotlight. Owen Gleiberman (BBC Culture) View full list. Carol. Mad Max: Fury Road.
Love & Mercy. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Trainwreck. Inside Out.