Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Empire:

Top-20:
1. Sinners
2. One Battle After Another
3. Weapons
4. The Ballad Of Wallis Island
5. Flow
6. Bring Her Back
7. Predator: Badlands
8. 28 Years Later
9. I Swear
10. Pillion
11. Nickel Boys
12. Hard Truths
13. F1
14. Bugonia
15. The Naked Gun
16. Black Bag
17. A House Of Dynamite
18. Frankenstein
19. The Brutalist
20. Warfare

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания The Wrap:

Top-15:
1. ‘Sinners
2. ‘Sorry, Baby’
3. ‘Listers: A Glimpse into Extreme Birdwatching’
4. ‘It Was Just an Accident’
5. ’28 Years Later’
6. ‘Predator: Badlands’
7. ‘Wake Up Dead Man’
8. ‘Good Boy’
9. ‘KPop Demon Hunters’
10. ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’
11. ‘Eephus’
12. ‘Hedda’
13. ‘Final Destination Bloodlines’
14. ‘Nouvelle Vague’
15. ‘Boys Go to Jupiter’

Honorable Mentions: “Black Bag,” “Deathstalker,” “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle,” “Everything’s Going to be Great,” “Grand Theft Hamlet,” “Heart Eyes,” “Lavender Men,” “Lesbian Space Princess,” “The Long Walk,” “The Luckiest Man in America,” “Materialists,” “No Other Choice,” “The Phoenician Scheme,” “Queen of the Ring,” “Relay,” “Scarlet,” “The Secret Agent,” “She Rides Shotgun,” “Sketch,” “Superman”

148 критиков выбрали лучшие фильмы для издания IndieWire:

Best Film
1. “One Battle After Another” — 573
2. “It Was Just an Accident” — 501
3. “Sinners” — 479
4. “Sentimental Value” — 391
5. “The Secret Agent” — 336
6. “Marty Supreme” — 259 (7 first place votes)
7. “Train Dreams” — 259 (5 first place votes)
8. “Sirat” — 206
9. “Hamnet” — 183
10. “Sorry, Baby” — 177

Best Director
1. Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another” — 199
2. Ryan Coogler, “Sinners” — 68
3. Kleber Mendonca Filho, “The Secret Agent” — 58
4. Jafar Panahi, “It Was Just an Accident” — 56
5. Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme” — 47
6. Oliver Laxe, “Sirat” — 28
7. Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value” — 25
8. Mascha Schilinski, “The Sound of Falling” — 24 (more first place votes)
9. Clint Bentley, “Train Dreams”
10. Guillermo del Toro, “Frankenstein”

Best Performance
1. Rose Byrne, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
2. Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
3. Wagner Moura, “The Secret Agent”
4. Jessie Buckley, “Hamnet”
5. Timothee Chalamet, “Marty Supreme”
6. Michael B. Jordan, “Sinners”
7. TIE: Benicio Del Toro/Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
9. Amanda Seyfried, “The Testament of Ann Lee”
10. Renate Reinsve, “Sentimental Value”

Best Documentary
1. “The Perfect Neighbor”
2. “Predators”
3. “Orwell 2+2=5”
4. “My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow”
5. “Afternoons of Solitude”
6. “Put Your Soul on My Hand and Walk”
7. “Come See Me in the Good Light”
8. “Cover-Up”
9. “2,000 Meters to Andriivka”
10. “The Tale of Silyan”

Best Cinematography
1. “Train Dreams”
2. “One Battle After Another”
3. “Sinners”
4. “Frankenstein”
5. “Resurrection”
6. “The Secret Agent”
7. “Marty Supreme”
8. “The Sound of Falling”
9. “No Other Choice”
10. “Sirat”

Best Screenplay
1. “One Battle After Another”
2. “It Was Just an Accident”
3. “Blue Moon”
4. “Sentimental Value”
5. “The Secret Agent”
6. “Sorry, Baby”
7. “Sinners”
8. “Weapons”
9. “Marty Supreme”
10. “Train Dreams”

Best International Film
1. “It Was Just an Accident”
2. “Sentimental Value”
3. “The Secret Agent”
4. “Sirat”
5. “The Sound of Falling”
6. “Misericordia”
7. “No Other Choice”
8. “My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow”
9. “Caught by the Tides”
10. “Resurrection”

Best First Feature
1. “Sorry, Baby”
2. “Eephus”
3. “Pillion”
4. “Friendship”
5. “Familiar Touch”

Best Films Opening in 2026
1. “Dead Man’s Wire”
2. TIE: “Currents”/”Blue Heron”
3. “Miroirs”
4. “Pillion”
5. “The President’s Cake”

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Clarisse Loughrey (The Independent):

Top-15:
1. Frankenstein
2. Nickel Boys
3. Sorry, Baby
4. The Brutalist
5. It Was Just an Accident
6. Die My Love
7. The Shrouds
8. One Battle After Another
9. Nosferatu
10. Bugonia
11. From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza
12. Black Bag
13. Hedda
14. Pillion
15. Mickey 17

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Ann Hornaday (Washington Post):

Top-10:
1. ‘The Life of Chuck’
2. ‘One Battle After Another’
3. ‘Sentimental Value’
4. ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’
5. ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
6. ‘Holding Liat’
7. ‘In Waves and War’
8. ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’
9. ‘Sinners’
10. ‘Hamnet’

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания The Film Stage:

Top-10:
1. One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. The Shrouds (David Cronenberg)
3. Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
4. Afternoons of Solitude (Albert Serra)
5. Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhangke)
6. Resurrection (Bi Gan)
7. The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
8. It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
9. Cloud (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
10. Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)

11-20:
11. Sirāt (Oliver Laxe)
12. Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
13. No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
14. The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
15. Eephus (Carson Lund)
16. Blue Moon (Richard Linklater)
17. Train Dreams (Clint Bentley)
18. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
19. Eddington (Ari Aster)
20. Weapons (Zach Cregger)

21-30:
21. Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
22. Black Bag (Steven Soderbergh)
23. Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
24. Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
25. 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle)
26. Magellan (Lav Diaz)
27. Nouvelle Vague (Richard Linklater)
28. Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
29. Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes)
30. The Chronology of Water (Kristen Stewart)

31-40:
31. Reflection in a Dead Diamond (Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani)
32. The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
33. By the Stream (Hong Sangsoo)
34. You Burn Me (Matías Piñeiro)
35. Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass (The Quay Brothers)
36. Hamnet (Chloé Zhao)
37. After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
38. April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
39. Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay)
40. My Undesirable Friends: Part One – Last Air in Moscow (Julia Loktev)

41-50:
41. BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
42. All That’s Left of You (Cherien Dabis)
43. Henry Fonda for President (Alexander Horwath)
44. The Testament of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
45. Pillion (Harry Lighton)
46. The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer)
47. Friendship (Andrew DeYoung)
48. Highest 2 Lowest (Spike Lee)
49. Avatar: Fire and Ash (James Cameron)
50. The Sparrow in the Chimney (Ramon Zürcher)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Film Comment:

Top-20:
1. One Battle After Another, by Paul Thomas Anderson, U.S.
2. The Mastermind, by Kelly Reichardt, U.S.
3. The Secret Agent, by Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil/France/Netherlands/Germany
4. It Was Just an Accident, by Jafar Panahi, Iran/France/Luxembourg
5. Caught by the Tides, by Jia Zhangke, China
6. Afternoons of Solitude, by Albert Serra, Spain
7. Misericordia, by Alain Guiraudie, France
8. Sirāt, by Oliver Laxe, France/Spain
9. The Shrouds, by David Cronenberg, France/Canada
10. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, by Mary Bronstein, U.S.
11. Sinners, by Ryan Coogler, U.S.
12. Grand Tour, by Miguel Gomes, Portugal/Italy/France
13. Peter Hujar’s Day, by Ira Sachs, U.S.
14. Familiar Touch, by Sarah Friedland, U.S.
15. By the Stream, by Hong Sangsoo, South Korea
16. Henry Fonda for President, by Alexander Horwath, Austria/Germany
17. Blue Moon, by Richard Linklater, U.S./Ireland
18. DIRECT ACTION, by Ben Russell, Guillaume Cailleau; France/Germany
19. Sound of Falling, by Mascha Schilinski, Germany
20. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, by Rungano Nyoni, Zambia/U.K./Ireland