Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Nick Schager (The Daily Beast):

Top-10:
1. Train Dreams
2. Blue Moon
3. The Secret Agent
4. Sentimental Value
5. The Phoenician Scheme
6. Resurrection
7. Sirât
8. Marty Supreme
9. Zodiac Killer Project
10. The History of Sound

Honorable Mention: It Was Just an Accident, 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Friendship, Caught by the Tides, Splitsville, Hedda, Vulcanizadora, Kontinental ’25, Die, My Love, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl.

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Cory Woodroof (USA Today’s For the Win):

Top-15:
Sinners, Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
28 Years Later, Danny Boyle
Weapons, Zach Cregger
The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson
Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach
Wake Up Dead Man, Rian Johnson
Lurker, Alex Russell
Eddington, Ari Aster
Blue Moon, Richard Linklater
Twinless, James Sweeney
Cloud, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor
A Little Prayer, Angus MacLachlan

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания New Statesman:

Top-10:
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
A Real Pain (Jesse Eisenberg)
The Brutalist (Brady Corbet)
Hard Truths (Mike Leigh)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof)
April (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Pillion (Harry Lighton)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Scott Tobias (The Reveal):

Top-15:
1. One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
2. Sirāt (dir. Olivier Laxe)
3. Marty Supreme (dir. Josh Safdie)
4. It Was Just an Accident (dir. Jafar Panahi)
5. The Mastermind (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
6. Predators (dir. David Osit)
7. Sentimental Value (dir. Joachim Trier)
8. Sinners (dir. Ryan Coogler)
9. Weapons (dir. Zach Cregger)
10. The Secret Agent (dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho)
11. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (dir. Mary Bronstein)
12. Eephus (dir. Carson Lund)
13. Misericordia (dir. Alain Guiraudie)
14. Bugonia (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
15. The Plague (dir. Charlie Polinger)

Honorable Mention (no particular order): On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Pavements, The Testament of Ann Lee, Die My Love, Train Dreams, Zodiac Killer Project, Black Bag, Nouvelle Vague, Blue Moon, My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Lurker, Eddington, Familiar Touch, The Naked Gun, Warfare, and Mickey 17.

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Cult MTL:

Justine Smith:
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto)
Fucktoys (Annapurna Sriram)
Left-Handed Girl (Shih-Ching Tsou)
The Phoenician Scheme (Wes Anderson)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)

Becca McKay:
A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke)
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
$POSITIONS (Brandon Daley)
Anything That Moves (Alex Phillips)
Fucktoys (Annapurna Sriram)
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Diego Céspedes)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Messy Legends (Kelly Kay Hurcomb, James Watts)
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake (Laura Casabe)
Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Chico Peres Smith:
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Universal Language (Matthew Rankin)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
The Virgin of the Quarry Lake (Laura Casabe)
Messy Legends (Kelly Kay Hurcomb, James Watts)
Honourable mentions: Gagne ton ciel (Mathieu Denis), Castration Movie Part 2 (Louise Weard), Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) and O Riso e a Faca (Pedro Pinho)

Mr. Wavvy
One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Marty Supreme (Josh Safdie)
Bring Her Back (Michael Philippou & Danny Philippou)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sinners (Ryan Coogler)
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (Matt Johnson)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Eddington (Ari Aster)
The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Benoit Rouilly (Unspoken Cinema):

Top-10:
1. Resurrection (BI Gan)
2. Magellan (Lav DIAZ)
3. The North (Bart SCHRIJVER)
4. Two Prosecutors (Sergei LOZNITSA)
5. Renoir (Chie HAYAKAWA)
6. Sirat (Oliver LAXE)
7. A Useful Ghost (Ratchapoom BOONBUNCHACHOKE)
8. Un Poeta (Simon MESA SOTO)
9. Black Dog (HU Guan)
10. It Was Just An Accident (Jafar PANAHI)

Mentions honorables : Jeunesse (Les Tourments)/Youth (Hard Times) + Jeunesse (Retour au pays)/Youth (Homecoming) (WANG Bing) ; The Love That Remains (Hlynur PALMASON) ; Les feux sauvages/Caught by the Tides (JIA Zhangke)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Spectrum Culture:

Top-13:
Blue Moon (Dir: Richard Linklater, Sony Picture Classics)
Bugonia (Dir.: Yorgos Lanthimos, Focus Features)
Frankenstein (Dir.: Guillermo del Toro, Netflix)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Dir.: Mary Bronstein, A24)
It Was Just an Accident (Dir.: Jafar Panahi, NEON)
The Mastermind (Dir.: Kelly Reichardt, MUBI)
One Battle After Another (Dir.: Paul Thomas Anderson, Warner Bros. Pictures)
Sentimental Value (Dir.: Joachim Trier, NEON)
The Shrouds (Dir.: David Cronenberg, Janus Films)
Sinners (dir.: Ryan Coogler, Warner Bros. Pictures)
Sorry, Baby (Dir.: Eva Victor, A24)
Train Dreams (Dir.: Clint Bentley, Netflix)
Weapons (Dir.: Zach Cregger, Warner Bros. Pictures)

Лучшие ленты года по версии издания Reverse Shot:

Top-10:
1. One Battle After Another, by Paul Thomas Anderson
2. It Was Just an Accident, by Jafar Panahi
3. Caught by the Tides, by Jia Zhang-ke
4. Afternoons of Solitude, by Albert Serra
5. The Secret Agent, by Kleber Mendonça Filho
6. Blue Moon, by Richard Linklater
7. Peter Hujar's Day, by Ira Sachs
8. Cloud, by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
9. Misericordia, by Alain Guiraudie
10. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, by Rungano Nyoni

Лучшие хорроры года по версии Станислава Зельвенского ("КиноПоиск"):

Top-13:
«28 лет спустя»
«Грешники»
«З/Л/О: Хэллоуин»
«Ик»
«Ловушка для кролика» / «Одно целое»
«Обезьяна»
«Обитель смерти» / «Обитель»
«Орудия»
«Пункт назначения: Узы крови»
«Человек находит кассету» / «Об одном месте региона Кансай»

Лучшие ленты года по версии русскоязычных критиков от издания "Афиша":

Top:
«Сентиментальная ценность» - 16 голосов
«Битва за битвой» - 15 голосов
«Звук падения» и «Сират» - 13 голосов
«Прости, детка» - 12 голосов
«Грешники» и «Сны поездов» - 11 голосов