Concatenated Year-End Polls

2023


[Same three sources as 2022. This year there were several carryovers from '22 that placed highly on the Sight & Sound list, presumably because those films weren't released in the U.K. until 2023.]

01. Killers of the Flower Moon
02. Oppenheimer
03. Past Lives
04. The Zone of Interest
05. Poor Things
06. May December
07. Anatomy of a Fall
08. Barbie
09. Asteroid City
10. Passages

11. Fallen Leaves
12. All of Us Strangers
13. The Boy and the Heron
14. The Holdovers
15. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World*
16. Showing Up
17. Afire
18. (tie) American Fiction
18. (tie) Last Summer*
20. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

21. Tótem
22. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
23. Maestro
24. (tie) Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros
24. (tie) Priscilla
26. (tie) Beau Is Afraid
26. (tie) The Taste of Things
28. The Killer
29. Perfect Days
30. Return to Seoul+

31. (tie) De humani corporis fabrica
31. (tie) A Thousand and One
31. (tie) You Hurt My Feelings
34. The Delinquents
35. La chimera
36. Close Your Eyes*
37. (tie) The Fabelmans+
37. (tie) TÁR+
39. (tie) Saint Omer+
39. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

41. How to Have Sex*
42. Trenque Lauqen
43. Pacifiction
44. (tie) Evil Does Not Exist*
44. (tie) A Prince*
46. Earth Mama
47. (tie) Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell*
47. (tie) John Wick Chapter 4
49. (tie) Air
49. (tie) Godland


* Not actually "released" in 2023.
+ Actually "released" in 2022.


2022


[Pursuant to last year's note, I'm still compiling my own Fake Voice poll and am now also concatenating Sight & Sound's poll, which I hadn't realized got expanded to 50 films. They include some titles that haven't yet been released in the U.S. (and may never be), but that's also true of many critics' lists I use for this endeavor.]

01. Aftersun
02. The Banshees of Inisherin
03. TÁR
04. Decision to Leave
05. Nope
06. Saint Omer
07. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
08. EO
09. (tie) The Fabelmans
09. (tie) RRR

11. Everything Everywhere All at Once
12. Crimes of the Future
13. The Eternal Daughter
14. Elvis
15. Top Gun: Maverick
16. Triangle of Sadness
17. Hit the Road
18. KIMI
19. Happening
20. Benediction

21. Corsage
22. One Fine Morning
23. Pacifiction*
24. Pinocchio (Del Toro & Gustafson)
25. After Yang
26. No Bears
27. Bones and All
28. Women Talking
29. Living
30. Return to Seoul

31. Fire of Love
32. We're All Going to the World's Fair
33. Showing Up*
34. Vortex
35. The Woman King
36. Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
37. Godland*
38. (tie) Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
38. (tie) The Quiet Girl
38. (tie) Three Minutes—A Lengthening

41. De humani corporis fabrica*
42. (tie) Descendant
42. (tie) Funny Pages
44. The Plains*
45. (tie) All That Breathes
45. (tie) Avatar: The Way of Water
45. (tie) Flux Gourmet
48. (tie) Both Sides of the Blade
48. (tie) The Girl and the Spider
48. (tie) In Front of Your Face


* Not actually "released" in 2022.


2021


[NOTE: After three years of being paid to conduct an approximation of the now-defunct Voice poll, I didn't get any such assignment this year. And I wasn't gonna go to the trouble of soliciting ballots from 100 critics sans remuneration. So this list concatenates the Indiewire poll and my own mini-concatenation of about 80 critics' published top 10 lists. That'll very likely continue to be the case in future.]

01. (tie) Drive My Car
01. (tie) The Power of the Dog
03. Licorice Pizza
04. The Worst Person in the World
05. Memoria
06. Petite Maman
07. The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
08. (tie) The Souvenir Part II
08. (tie) Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
10. West Side Story

11. The Lost Daughter
12. (tie) Pig
12. (tie) Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
14. Dune: Part One
15. The Green Knight
16. Passing
17. C'mon C'mon
18. Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
19. Bergman Island
20. (tie) Flee
20. (tie) A Hero

22. Annette
23. The Tragedy of Macbeth
24. Red Rocket
25. Benedetta
26. The Velvet Underground
27. CODA
28. (tie) Days
28. (tie) Parallel Mothers
30. (tie) The Card Counter
30. (tie) The Disciple

32. Spencer
33. (tie) @Zola
33. (tie) Titane
35. Belfast
36. The Beatles: Get Back**
37. What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?
38. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
39. (tie) El Planeta
39. (tie) In Front of Your Face*

41. (tie) In the Same Breath
41. (tie) Quo Vadis, Aida?
43. (tie) About Endlessness
43. (tie) Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
45. (tie) Nine Days
45. (tie) Procession
47. Jockey
48. (tie) France
48. (tie) Test Pattern
50. (tie) Belle*
50. (tie) Faya Dayi


* Not actually "released" in 2021.
** Not actually a film.


2020


01. (tie) First Cow
01. (tie) Nomadland
03. (tie) Lovers Rock
03. (tie) Never Rarely Sometimes Always
05. Time
06. Martin Eden
07. (tie) Bacurau
07. (tie) Dick Johnson Is Dead
07. (tie) I'm Thinking of Ending Things
10. Da 5 Bloods

11. Beanpole
12. The Assistant
13. (tie) Collective
13. (tie) Vitalina Varela
15. Kajillionaire
16. Promising Young Woman
17. (tie) The Nest
17. (tie) Sound of Metal
19. Minari
20. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

21. David Byrne's American Utopia
22. City Hall
23. Another Round
24. (tie) The Whistlers
24. (tie) WolfWalkers
26. Soul
27. (tie) Fourteen
27. (tie) Mank
29. Possessor
30. The Invisible Man

31. (tie) One Night in Miami...
31. (tie) Shirley
33. The Vast of Night
34. The Trial of the Chicago 7
35. Driveways
36. Days*
37. (tie) Ammonite
37. (tie) Mangrove
37. (tie) Sorry We Missed You
40. (tie) I Was at Home, but...
40. (tie) News of the World
40. (tie) She Dies Tomorrow

43. To the Ends of the Earth
44. The Grand Bizarre
45. (tie) Palm Springs
45. (tie) Tenet
47. The Father
48. (tie) Let Them All Talk, or The Fall of 2019
48. (tie) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
50. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

* Not actually "released" in 2020.


2019


01. (tie) I Heard You Paint Houses
01. (tie) Parasite
03. (tie) Marriage Story
03. (tie) Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
05. Uncut Gems
06. Portrait of a Lady on Fire
07. Pain and Glory
08. Little Women
09. The Souvenir
10. Transit

11. The Farewell
12. A Hidden Life
13. Knives Out
14. (tie) Atlantics
14. (tie) High Life
16. Long Day's Journey Into Night
17. Us
18. Ash Is Purest White
19. An Elephant Sitting Still
20. Apollo 11

21. The Last Black Man in San Francisco
22. (tie) Ad Astra
22. (tie) Midsommar
24. The Lighthouse
25. Joker
26. (tie) Her Smell
26. (tie) Under the Silver Lake
28. Synonyms
29. La flor
30. (tie) The Nightingale
30. (tie) Waves

32. Asako I & II
33. (tie) 1917
33. (tie) Peterloo
35. (tie) Hustlers
35. (tie) The Image Book
37. (tie) A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
37. (tie) Jojo Rabbit
39. (tie) Booksmart
39. (tie) The Hottest August

41. (tie) Climax
41. (tie) Monos
43. (tie) Honeyland
43. (tie) Our Time
45. Birds of Passage
46. In My Room
47. (tie) Dark Waters
47. (tie) Dolemite Is My Name
49. Toy Story 4
50. Honey Boy


2018


01. (tie) First Reformed
01. (tie) Roma
03. Burning
04. Cold War
05. (tie) The Favourite
05. (tie) Zama
07. If Beale Street Could Talk
08. Shoplifters
09. Leave No Trace
10. The Rider

11. You Were Never Really Here
12. BlacKkKlansman
13. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
14. Paddington 2
15. Support the Girls
16. (tie) Eighth Grade
16. (tie) Minding the Gap
18. A Star Is Born
19. First Man
20. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

21. (tie) Annihilation
21. (tie) Hereditary
21. (tie) The Other Side of the Wind
21. (tie) Private Life
25. Sorry to Bother You
26. Widows
27. Mission: Impossible—Fallout
28. The Death of Stalin
29. Let the Sunshine In
30. (tie) Isle of Dogs
30. (tie) Madeline's Madeline

32. (tie) Black Panther
32. (tie) Happy as Lazzaro
34. (tie) Hale County This Morning, This Evening
34. (tie) Mandy
36. 24 Frames
37. (tie) Bisbee '17
37. (tie) The House That Jack Built
39. (tie) Blindspotting
39. (tie) Green Book

41. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
42. Western
43. Border
44. (tie) The Day After
44. (tie) Suspiria
44. (tie) The Wild Pear Tree
47. Lean On Pete
48. Amazing Grace
49. (tie) Monrovia, Indiana
49. (tie) Shirkers


2017


01. (tie) Get Out
01. (tie) Lady Bird
03. Phantom Thread
04. Dunkirk
05. The Florida Project
06. Call Me by Your Name
07. Personal Shopper
08. The Shape of Water
09. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
10. A Ghost Story

11. Good Time
12. The Past
13. mother!
14. Mudbound
15. The Big Sick
16. (tie) Blade Runner 2049
16. (tie) Columbus
18. The Death of Louis XIV
19. Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi
20. (tie) Nocturama
20. (tie) Raw

22. (tie) Baby Driver
22. (tie) I, Tonya
22. (tie) A Quiet Passion
25. (tie) BPM (Beats per Minute)
25. (tie) Wonder Woman
27. Twin Peaks*
28. (tie) The Disaster Artist
28. (tie) Faces Places
28. (tie) The Lost City of Z
28. (tie) Okja

32. On the Beach at Night Alone
33. Dawson City: Frozen Time
34. The Work
35. Logan
36. Ex Libris
37. Song to Song
38. Wormwood
39. The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Revisited)
40. (tie) Marjorie Prime
40. (tie) Menashe

42. (tie) Logan Lucky
42. (tie) The Square
44. (tie) Coco
44. (tie) Kedi
46. Wind River
47. The Beguiled
48. Beatriz at Dinner
49. The Ornithologist
50. (tie) The Killing of a Sacred Deer
50. (tie) War for the Planet of the Apes

* This is in fact the third season of a television show, not a film.


2016


01. Moonlight
02. Manchester By The Sea
03. Toni Erdmann
04. La La Land
05. (tie) O.J.: Made in America
05. (tie) Paterson
07. The Handmaiden
08. Elle
09. (tie) Arrival
09. (tie) Cameraperson
09. (tie) Certain Women

12. Hell or High Water
13. Cemetery of Splendour
14. (tie) Jackie
14. (tie) The Lobster
16. Silence
17. No Home Movie
18. American Honey
19. Everybody Wants Some!!
20. Love & Friendship

21. The Fits
22. Things to Come
23. (tie) Green Room
23. (tie) I Am Not Your Negro
23. (tie) 20th Century Women
23. (tie) The Witch: A New-England Folktale
27. Right Now, Wrong Then
28. Happy Hour
29. (tie) Aquarius
29. (tie) Loving

31. Sing Street
32. 13th
33. (tie) Hail, Caesar!
33. (tie) Knight of Cups
35. Fire at Sea
36. (tie) Hunt for the Wilderpeople
36. (tie) The Love Witch
38. Nocturnal Animals
39. The Neon Demon
40. (tie) A Bigger Splash
40. (tie) Weiner

42. Sunset Song
43. Kubo and the Two Strings
44. (tie) I, Daniel Blake
44. (tie) Krisha
44. (tie) Tower
47. (tie) Chevalier
47. (tie) Fences
49. Swiss Army Man
50. The Edge of Seventeen


2015


01. (tie) Carol
01. (tie) Mad Max: Fury Road
03. Spotlight
04. Phoenix
05. (tie) The Assassin
05. (tie) Inside Out
07. Clouds of Sils Maria
08. Anomalisa
09. The Look of Silence
10. Brooklyn

11. Tangerine
12. Timbuktu
13. Son of Saul
14. Hard to Be a God
15. Ex Machina
16. (tie) Creed
16. (tie) 45 Years
18. Heaven Knows What
19. (tie) Arabian Nights
19. (tie) In Jackson Heights
19. (tie) The Diary of a Teenage Girl

22. Room
23. Jauja
24. The Duke of Burgundy
25. Horse Money
26. The Forbidden Room
27. (tie) It Follows
27. (tie) Mistress America
29. Magic Mike XXL
30. Jafar Panahi's Taxi

31. (tie) Heart of a Dog
31. (tie) The Martian
33. (tie) Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story
33. (tie) A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
35. Amy
36. Bridge of Spies
37. (tie) Chi-Raq
37. (tie) Sicario
39. The Tribe
40. About Elly

41. The Big Short
42. Love & Mercy
43. The Revenant
44. The End of the Tour
45. The Mend
46. Li'l Quinquin
47. Steve Jobs
48. (tie) Eden
48. (tie) Out 1
50. Saint Laurent


2011


01. The Tree of Life
02. Melancholia
03. A Separation
04. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
05. Certified Copy
06. Mysteries of Lisbon
07. Meek's Cutoff
08. Hugo
09. A Dangerous Method
10. Drive

11. Margaret
12. The Descendants
13. Take Shelter
14. Poetry
15. Film Socialisme
16. Shame
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
18. The Artist
19. Martha Marcy May Marlene
20. (tie) The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu

20. (tie) Nostalgia for the Light
20. (tie) Weekend
23. Le quattro volte
24. (tie) The Interrupters
24. (tie) A Brighter Summer Day
26. Midnight in Paris
27. Le Havre
28. To Die Like a Man
29. Tuesday, After Christmas
30. The Arbor

31. The Skin I Live In
32. We Need to Talk About Kevin
33. City of Life and Death
34. Of Gods and Men 36. Beginners
37. Aurora
38. Bridesmaids
39. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
40. Moneyball

41. Contagion
42. Jane Eyre
43. Incendies
44. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
45. House of Pleasures
46. (tie) Attack the Block
46. (tie) Road to Nowhere
48. (tie) Bellflower
48. (tie) The Trip
50: Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, a Tale of Life


2010


01. The Social Network
02. Carlos
03. Winter's Bone
04. The Ghost Writer
05. Everyone Else
06. Mother
07. (tie) White Material
07. (tie) Wild Grass
09. Dogtooth
10. Black Swan

11. Toy Story 3
12. Another Year
13. (tie) I Am Love
13. (tie) A Prophet
15. Greenberg
16. The Kids Are All Right
17. Exit Through the Gift Shop
18. Shutter Island
19. Secret Sunshine
20. Enter the Void

21. (tie) Our Beloved Month of August
21. (tie) The Strange Case of Angelica
23. Inception
24. Vincere
25. Sweetgrass
26. Alamar
27. Inside Job
28. Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl
29. Blue Valentine
30. The Father of My Children

31. The King's Speech
32. (tie) Around a Small Mountain
32. (tie) Boxing Gym
34. (tie) The Oath
34. (tie) True Grit
36. (tie) Ne change rien
36. (tie) World on a Wire
38. Lourdes
39. Life During Wartime
40. Animal Kingdom

41. Fish Tank
42. Bluebeard
43. Red Riding Trilogy
44. Last Train Home
45. Please Give
46. Daddy Longlegs
47. (tie) Hadewijch
47. (tie) 127 Hours
49. Somewhere
50. Marwencol


2007


01. There Will Be Blood
02. No Country for Old Men
03. Zodiac
04. Syndromes and a Century
05. I'm Not There
06. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
07. Killer of Sheep
08. Colossal Youth
09. Black Book
10. (tie) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. (tie) Eastern Promises

12. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
13. Offside
14. Ratatouille
15. Michael Clayton
16. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
17. (tie) The Host
17. (tie) Once
19. Away From Her
20. Southland Tales

21. Into the Wild
22. (tie) Lady Chatterley
22. (tie) Persepolis
24. (tie) Private Fears in Public Places
24. (tie) Regular Lovers
26. Grindhouse
27. Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
28. (tie) Bamako
28. (tie) 12:08 East of Bucharest
30. No End in Sight

31. The Lives of Others
32. The Darjeeling Limited
33. Atonement
34. The Bourne Ultimatum
35. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
36. The Savages
37. Into Great Silence
38. (tie) Hot Fuzz
38. (tie) Knocked Up
38. (tie) Margot at the Wedding

41. (tie) Day Night Day Night
41. (tie) Rescue Dawn
43. Brand Upon the Brain!
44. The Wayward Cloud
45. Death Proof
46. (tie) Juno
46. (tie) Superbad
48. Lust, Caution
49. (tie) Control
49. (tie) Flanders
49. (tie) Sicko