Лучшие ленты года по версии David Sims (The Atlantic):

Top-10:
1. The Worst Person in the World
2. Licorice Pizza
3. Memoria
4. The Power of the Dog
5. The Green Knight
6. The Card Counter
7. Dune
8. Red Rocket
9. The Lost Daughter
10. The Souvenir Part II

Лучшие ленты года по версии Peter Travers (ABC News):

Top-10:
1. 'The Power of the Dog'
2. 'West Side Story'
3. 'Belfast'
4. 'Licorice Pizza'
5. 'Coda'
6. 'The Tragedy of Macbeth'
7. 'The Lost Daughter'
8. 'Dune'
9. 'Summer of Soul (. . . Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)'
10. Tie: 'Drive My Car' and 'The Worst Person in the World'

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания The Guardian:

Top-10:
1. The Power of the Dog
2. The Green Knight
3. Petite Maman
4. Drive My Car
5. Nomadland
6. Dune
7. West Side Story
8. Azor
9. The Lost Daughter
10. The Tragedy of Macbeth

11-20:
11. The Father
12. First Cow
13. No Time to Die
14. Dear Comrades!
15. Minari
16. Quo Vadis, Aida?
17. The Humans
17. Getting Away with Murder(s)
18. Summer of Soul
19. Limbo
20. After Love

21-30:
21. The Story of Looking
22. Passing
23. Identifying Features
24. Palm Springs
25. The Killing of Two Lovers
26. The World to Come
27. tick, tick … BOOM!
28. Procession
29. The Nest
30. Ammonite

31-40:
31. Rose Plays Julie
32. I Care a Lot
33. House of Gucci
34. The Velvet Underground
35. Never Gonna Snow Again
36. Censor
37. Annette
38. New Order
39. The Reason I Jump
40. Souad

41-50:
41. Black Bear
42. Martin Eden
43. C’mon C’mon
44. Shiva Baby
45. State Funeral
46. Titane
47. Last Night in Soho
48. Natural Light
49. Boiling Point
50. Promising Young Woman

Лучшие российские ленты года по версии издания ''Искусства кино'':

Top-10:
1. «Обходные пути» (Екатерина Селенкина)
2. «Разжимая кулаки» (Кира Коваленко)
3. «Нуучча» (Владимир Мункуев)
4. «Дунай» (Любовь Мульменко)
5–6. «На близком расстоянии» (Григорий Добрыгин)
5-6. «Петровы в гриппе» (Кирилл Серебренников)
7-9. «Мама, я дома» (Владимир Битоков)
7–9. «Медея» (Александр Зельдович)
7–9. «Капитан Волконогов бежал» (Наталья Меркулова, Алексей Чупов)
10-11. «Лето» (Вадим Костров)
10-11. «Куда мы едем?» (Руслан Федотов)

Лучшие ленты года по версии Chiara Maranon (Mubi):

Home Viewing:
Azor (Andreas Fontana, Switzerland)
Burning an Illusion (Menelik Shabazz, 1981)
Cow Lowing Among Ruins (Ramon Lluis Bande, 2020)
El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo, Bolivia)
Haruhara San’s Recorder (Kyoshi Sugita, Japan)
Housekeeping (Bill Forsyth, 1987)
Ornamental Hairpin (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)
Petite maman (Celine Sciamma, France)
Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette, Canada)
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet (Ana Katz, Argentina)
The Girl (Marta Meszaros, 1968)
The Girl and the Spider (Ramon Zurcher, Silvan Zurcher, Switzerland)
What Will Summer Bring (Ignacio Ceroi, Argentina)

Cinema Viewing:
A Night of Knowing Nothing (Payal Kapadia, India)
Ali in Wonderland (Djourha Abouda, Alain Bonnamy, 1975)
ear for eye (debbie tucker green, UK)
I Remember Mama (George Stevens, 1948)
Memoria (Apichatpong Wheerasetakul, Colombia)
Merrily We Go to Hell (Dorothy Arzner, 1932)
Only Yesterday (John M. Stahl, 1933)
Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror, 1972)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, US)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
Who's Stopping Us (Jonas Trueba, Spain)
Yearning (Mikio Naruse, 1964)

Лучшие ленты года по версии Anais Lebrun (Mubi):

Top-10:
1. Petite maman (Celine Sciamma, France)
2. Zola (Janicza Bravo, US)
3. The Green Knight (David Lowery, US)
4. Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky, Austria)
5. Candyman (Nia DaCosta, US)
6. Compartment No.6 (Juho Kuosmanen, Finland)
7. Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, Japan)
8. Four Roads (Alice Rohrwacher, Italy)
9. Il Buco (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy)
10. How To with John Wilson, S1E6, "How to Cook the Perfect Risotto" (John Wilson, US)

Лучшие ленты года по версии Daniel Kasman (Mubi):

Home Viewing:
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (Josh Greenbaum, US)
Chameleon Street (Wendell B. Harris, Jr., 1990)
Chess of the Wind (Mohammad Reza Aslani, 1976)
The Death of David Cronenberg (Caitlin Cronenberg & David Cronenberg, Canada)
earthearthearth (Daichi Saito, Canada)
The Empty Man (David Prior, 2020)
Faya Dayi (Jessica Beshir, Ethiopia/US)
Fifth Avenue Girl (Gregory La Cava, 1939)
France (Bruno Dumont, France)
Iguana (Monte Hellman, 1988)
Limbo (Cheang Soi, Hong Kong)
“A One-Woman Confessional: Eight Films by Cecilia Mangini” (Curated by Another Screen)
Monster Hunter (Paul W.S. Anderson, 2020)
Pebbles (P.S. Vinothraj, India)
Polycephaly in D (Michael Robinson, US)
Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg, UK)
Still Life (Sohrab Shahid Saless, 1974)
The Very Thought of You (Delmer Daves, 1944)
We Were Strangers (John Huston, 1949)
What Do We See We Look at the Sky? (Alexandre Koberidze, Georgia)

Cinema Viewing:
Belle (Mamoru Hosoda, Japan)
Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan)
Lamentations (Nathaniel Dorsky, US)
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Colombia)
La spiaggia (Alberto Lattuada, 1954)
Zeros and Ones (Abel Ferrara, US)