Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Decider:

Top-18:
1. 'Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar'
2. 'CODA'
3. 'Nomadland'
4. 'In The Heights'
5. 'The Power of the Dog'
6. 'Dune'
7. 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'
8. 'Titane'
9. 'Raya and the Last Dragon'
10. 'The Green Knight'
11. 'Werewolves Within'
12. 'Bo Burnham: Inside'
13. 'Cruella'
14. 'Zola'
15. 'Annette'
16. 'Shiva Baby'
17. 'Nobody'
18. 'Luca'

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Consequence:

Top-25:
01. Zola
02. The Green Knight
03. Annette
04. Dune
05. The French Dispatch
06. The Last Duel
07. Licorice Pizza
08. The Power of the Dog
09. Pig
10. Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
11. Spencer
12. Red Rocket
13. Language Lessons
14. Cyrano
15. Summer of Soul
16. Tick, Tick… Boom!
17. Passing
18. The Sparks Brothers
19. The Mitchells vs. the Machines
20. Drive My Car
21. In the Heights
22. Titane
23. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
24. The Harder They Fall
25. Nobody

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Complex:

Top-20:
1. ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’
2. ‘Minari’
3. ‘The Harder They Fall’
4. ‘A Quiet Place Part II’
5. ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’
6. ‘Dune’
7. ‘The Suicide Squad’
8. ‘No Time to Die’
9. ‘Don’t Look Up’
10. ‘House of Gucci’
11. ‘Nomadland’
12. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’
13. ‘The French Dispatch’
14. ‘The Green Knight’
15. ‘Pig’
16. ‘North Hollywood’
17. ‘Zola’
18. ‘Candyman’
19. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’
20. ‘I Care a Lot’

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Cnet:

Top-16:
No Time To Die
Dune
King Richard
I Care a Lot
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar
Fear Street: 1994/ 1978/ 1666
In The Heights
No Sudden Move
CODA
Gunpowder Milkshake
The Little Things
Nomadland
Minari
A Quiet Place Part II
Judas and the Black Messiah

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Cinevue:

Top-10:
1. Petite Maman (dir. Céline Sciamma)
2. The Power of the Dog (dir. Jane Campion)
3. Annette (dir. Leos Carax)
=4. Drive My Car (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
=4. Dune (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
=6. Flee (dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
=6. The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery)
8. Pig (dir. Michael Sarnoski)
9. Summer of Soul (dir. Questlove)
=10. Azor (dir. Andreas Fontana)

Honourable mentions:
11. Zola (dir. Janicza Bravo)
=12. Compartment No. 6 (dir. Juho Kuosmanen)
=12. The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (dir. Ana Katz)
=12. The Last Duel (dir. Ridley Scott)
=12. Playground (dir. Laura Wandel)
=12. Titane (dir. Julie Ducournau)
17. Mad God (dir. Phil Tippett)
=18. Licorice Pizza (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
=18. Spencer (dir. Pablo Larraín)
=20. Nightmare Alley (dir. Guillermo del Toro)
=20. Candyman (dir. Nia DaCosta)
=20. Mass (dir. Fran Kranz)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Cineuropa:

Top-25:
1 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn [+], Radu Jude (Romania/Luxembourg/Czech Republic/Croatia/Switzerland/UK)
2 The Worst Person In The World [+], Joachim Trier (Norway/France/Sweden/Denmark)
3 Titane [+], Julia Ducournau (France)
4 Petite Maman [+], Céline Sciamma (France)
5 Annette [+], Leos Carax (France/Germany/Belgium/Switzerland/Mexico/Japan)
6 The Hand of God [+], Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
7 Happening [+], Audrey Diwan (France)
8 The Souvenir Part II [+], Joanna Hogg (UK)
9 What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? [+], Alexandre Koberidze (Germany/Georgia)
10 Memoria [+], Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Colombia/Thailand/UK/Mexico/France/Germany/China/Taiwan/USA/Switzerland)
11 France [+], Bruno Dumont (France)
= Compartment No. 6 [+], Juho Kuosmanen (Finland/Russia/Estonia/Germany)
12 The Lost Daughter [+], Maggie Gyllenhaal (USA/UK/Greece/Israel)
= Flee [+], Jonas Poher Rasmussen (Denmark/France/Norway/Sweden)
14 Playground [+], Laura Wandel (Belgium)
16 The Tsugua Diaries [+], Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro (Portugal)
= The Green Knight [+], David Lowery (USA/Canada/Ireland)
17 Vortex [+], Gaspar Noé (France/Belgium/Monaco)
= The Innocents [+], Eskil Vogt (Norway/Sweden/Denmark/Finland/France/UK)
19 Petrov’s Flu [+], Kirill Serebrennikov (Russia/Switzerland/France/Germany)
21 Parallel Mothers [+], Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
22 Pleasure [+], Ninja Thyberg (Sweden/Netherlands/France)
23 Who’s Stopping Us [+], Jonás Trueba (Spain)
24 Mr Bachmann and his Class [+], Maria Speth (Germany)
25 L'arminuta [+], Giuseppe Bonito (Italy/Switzerland)