Simon Abrams (RogerEbert)
Gospel of Eureka
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Sorry, Angel
Us
The Wandering Soap Opera
Siddhant Adlakha (Slash Film)
High Life
Her Smell
Sir
Leto
Manta Ray
Kaleem Aftab (UK Critics Circle)
The Souvenir
Edge of Democracy
Climax
Ruben Brandt, Collector
Ash is Purest White
Carlos Aguilar (Movie Maker)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Souvenir
Our Time
Climax
Funan
Ethan Alter (Yahoo)
Her Smell
Peterloo
The Changeover
Booksmart
The Beach Bum
Erik Anderson (Awards Watch)
The Farewell
Knife + Heart
Booksmart
Apollo 11
Us
David Ansen (Newsweek)
Amazing Grace
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Birds of Passage
The Heiress
Gloria Bell
Edwin Arnaudin (mxarts)
Booksmart
The Dead Don't Die
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Apollo 11
Fighting With My Family
Daniel Barnes (Sacramento News & Review)
Holiday
Everybody Knows
Birds of Passage
Arctic
Dragged Across Concrete
Nicholas Bell (ION Cinema)
Climax
High Life
Dragged Across Concrete
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Souvenir
Alex Biese (USA Today)
When They See Us
Alita: Battle Angel Knock Down
The House
Gloria Bell
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Alex Billington (First Showing)
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Aniara
Arctic
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek
Woman at War
Chuck Bowen (Slant Magazine)
Her Smell
Ash is Purest White
Dragged Across Concrete
Grass
Diane
Liz Braun (Toronto Sun)
The Souvenir
John Wick Chapter 3
Cold War
Peterloo
Dogman.
Christopher Bumbray (Joblo)
Booksmart
Rocketman
High Life
Gloria Bell
John Wick - Chapter 3
Sean Burns (WBUR)
Ash is Purest White
Her Smell
Non-Fiction
Diane
High Life
Joshua Brunsting (Criterion)
The Souvenir
High Life
Black Mother
The Image Book
An Elephant Sitting Still
Jim Brunzell (Festival Director Sound Unseen)
Us
Booksmart
The Souvenir
Under the Silver Lake
High-Life
Festival Favorites: The Light of My Life, The Art of Self-Defense, Good Boys, God of the Piano, Boyz in the Wood, Greener Grass, All I Can Say, End of the Century
Chris Carpenter (The Rage Monthly)
Us
Captain Marvel
Unicorn Store
Ask Dr. Ruth
Rocketman
Erik Childress (efilmcritic)
Us
Her Smell
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Hotel Mumbai
Toy Story 4
Daryl Chin (Screenwriter)
Birds of Passage
The Wild Pear Tree
3 Faces
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Non-Fiction
Special Mention: Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
Nick Clement (Variety)
The Vast of Night
Gloria Bell
The Highwaymen
High Flying Bird
Triple Frontier
Laura Clifford (Reeling Reviews)
Diane
Climax
Ruben Brand, Collector
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Rocketman
Jake Cole (Slant Magazine)
Ash Is Purest White
High Life
The Souvenir
Transit
Black Mother
Sherilyn Connelly (SF Weekly)
3 Faces
Alita: Battle Angel
All is True
Endzeit - Ever After
To Dust
Martyn Conterio (Freelance, Author)
Under the Silver Lake
Us
Happy As Lazzaro
High Life
Alita: Battle Angel
Max Covill (Film School Rejects)
Booksmart
Homecoming
John Wick - Chapter 3
High Life
High Flying Bird
Jordan Cronk (Reverse Shot/CinemaScope)
An Elephant Sitting Still
High Life
The Image Book
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Transit
Greg Cwik (Freelance)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Under the Silver Lake
High Life
Beach Bum
Grass
Peter DeBruge (Variety)
Birds of Passage
Diane
Our Time
Woman at War
Non-Fiction
Marc van de Klashorst (International Cinephile Society)
Birds of Passage
Climax
High Life
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Wild Pear Tree
Festival Favorites: Another Day of Life , Beanpole, A Hidden Life, The Lighthouse, Little Joe
Steve Dollar (The Washington Post/The Wall Street Journal)
An Elephant Sitting Still
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Black Mother
Under the Silver Lake
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
A.A Dowd (The A.V. Club)
Transit
Climax
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Ash is Purest White
Her Smell
Edward Douglas (Comics Beat)
The Biggest Little Farm, Apollo 11, Rocketman, Yesterday
Festival Favorites: The Farewell
Alonso Duralde (The Wrap)
Booksmart
Diane
Her Smell
Non-Fiction
3 Faces
Gregory Ellwood (The Playlist)
Rocketman
Us
Climax
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Booksmart
Festival Favorites: Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, The Farewell, Parasite, I Lost My Body, The Lighthouse
Steven Erickson (Nashville Scene)
The Souvenir
Transit
Just Don't Think I'll Scream
An Elephant Sitting Still
The Image Book
Matt Fagerholm (RogerEbert)
Hail, Satan
Saint Frances
The Souvenir
One Child Nation
Gloria Bell
Festival Favorites: The Nightingale
Jim Farmer (Georgia Voice)
Sauvage
Us
Rocketman
Sorry Angel
50 Giant Little Ones
Scott Feinberg (The Hollywood Reporter)
Booksmart
Knock Down the House
The Biggest Little Farm
The Black Godfather
Festival Favorites: American Dharma, David Crosby: Remember My Name
Marshall Fine (Freelance)
Hail, Satan
Booksmart
Everybody Knows
Diane
Avengers: Endgame
David Fear (Rolling Stone)
Apollo 11
An Elephant Sitting Still
High Flying Bird
Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Souvenir
Garth Franklin (Dark Horizons)
Birds of Passage
Booksmart
Gloria Bell
The Nightingale
The Souvenir
Jon Frosch (The Hollywood Reporter)
Sorry Angel
Non-Fiction
Booksmart
The Souvenir
Us
Kenji Fujishima (Slant Magazine)
3 Faces
An Elephant Sitting Still
Ash is Purest White
Long Day's Journey into Night
Birds of Passage
Lawrence Garcia (MUBI)
Asako I & II 2
An Elephant Sitting Still
Transit
Her Smell
Grass
Todd Gilchrist (The Wrap)
Apollo 11
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Homecoming
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
The Sun Is Also A Star
Midsommar
Jean-Jacky Goldberg (Les Inrockuptibles)
Mektoub: Intermezzo
Pain and Glory
Sibyl
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Welcome to Marwen
Jason Gorber (That Shelf)
Apollo 11
Amazing Grace
Deadwood
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
The Man Who Killed Bigfoot and then Hitler
Festival Favorites: Luce, The Unknown Saint, Parasite, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, The Lodge
Jason Guerrasio (Business Insider)
Booksmart
Us
Long Shot
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Toy Story 4
Brad Gullickson (Freelance)
Avengers: Endgame
Daniel Isn't Real
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Paddleton
Us
Pete Hammond (Deadline)
Last Black Man In San Francisco
Wild Rose
Yesterday
Dragged Across Concrete
Toy Story 4/Secret Life Of Pets 2
Zakki Hasan (Birth. Movies. Death.)
Apollo 11
Toy Story 4
High Life
Shazam!
Avengers: Endgame
Jesse Hassenger (The A.V. Club)
Under the Silver Lake
Slut in a Good Way
Gloria Bell
Climax
Us
Julia Hayes (iDaily)
Booksmart
Us
Avengers: Endgame
Shazam
John Wick 3 - Parabellum
Glenn Heath Jr. (San Diego City Beat)
Transit
Ash is Purest White
High Flying Bird
Long Day's Journey into Night
Hotel By the River
Patrick Heidmann (Berliner Zeitung/EPD Film)
Ash is Purest White
Gloria Bell
High Life
Sorry Angel
Wild Rose
Hunter Heilman (Freelance)
Transit
Ash is Purest White
Climax
Apollo 11
The Perfection
Odie Henderson (RogerEbert)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Us
Amazing Grace
The Gospel of Eureka
Rafiki
Luke Hicks ((Chicago Reader/Film School Rejects))
Transit
Piercing
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Too Late to Die Young
High Life
Boyd van Hoeij (The Hollywood Reporter)
Birds of Passage
Styx
Transit
Shadow
Diamantino
Matt Hoffman (That Shelf)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
The Last
Ash is Purest White
Clara's Ghost
Out of Blue
Andy Hoglund (Freelance)
High Flying Bird
Us
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
The Perfection
All That We Destroy
Robert Horton (Seattle Weekly/Film Comment)
The Souvenir
Peterloo
An Elephant Sitting Still
Dragged Across Concrete
Booksmart
Peter Howell (Toronto Star)
Apollo 11
The Souvenir
Amazing Grace
Booksmart
Us
Annette Indorf (Columbia University Film Professor)
When They See Us
The Mustang
The Spy Behind Home Plate
Yesterday
The Best of Enemies
Dan Jackson (Thrillist)
High Life
The Souvenir
Ash Is Purest White
Peterloo
High Flying Bird
Richard T Jameson (Parallax View)
Dragged Across Concrete
Glass
The Dead Don't Die
Hagazussa
The Wind
Nate Jones (New York Magazine/Vulture)
The Souvenir
Apollo 11
Us
Avengers: Endgame
High Flying Bird
Festival Favorites: The Farewell, The Lighthouse, Atlantiques, Little Joe, Wild Goose Lake
Don Kaye (Den of Geek)
Avengers: Endgame
Dragged Across Concrete
High Life
Toy Story 4
Climax
Festival Favorites: The Nightingale
Glenn Kenny (The New York Times)
High Life
Black Mother
Dragged Across Concrete
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Asako I & II
Robert Koehler (Cinema Scope)
Transit
An Elephant Sitting Still
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Souvenir
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Harry Knowles (Aint it Cool News)
Glass
Tolkien
Rocketman
Us
Booksmart
Eric Kohn (IndieWire)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Us
Souvenir
High Life
Apollo 11
Liam Lacey (The Globe and Mail)
Ash Is The Purest White
3 Faces
Carmine Street Guitars
High Life
Shadow
Tomris Laffly (Time Out)
The Souvenir
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Ash is Purest White
Transit
Under The Silver Lake
Kevin Laforest (Extra Beurre)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Dragged Across Concrete
Glass
The Dirt
High Flying Bird
Eric Lavallée - IONCINEMA.com
The Wild Pear Tree
Birds of Passage
Holiday
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Will Leitch (New York Magazine)
Climax
Diane
High Flying Bird
Rolling Thunder Revue
Toy Story 4
Matthew Lickona (San Diego Reader)
Birds of Passage
Transit
Cold War
Non-Fiction
The White Crow
Craig D. Lindsey (Nashville Scene)
Barry "Ronny/Lilly" Episode
Amazing Grace
Long Day's Journey into Night
Us
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Chloe Lizotte (Reverse Shot/Film Comment)
Ash is Purest White
Asako I & II
Her Smell
Permanent Green Light
The Souvenir
Carson Lund (Slant Magazine)
Transit
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Beach Bum
the Souvenir
High Life
Joey Magidson (Awards Circuit)
Booksmart
Avengers: Endgame
The Public
Toy Story 4
Long Shot
Wade Major (NPR/KPCC)
Avengers: Endgame
Photograph
3 Faces
The Sun is Also A Star
Toy Story 4
Willow Catelyn Maclay (Village Voice)
The Beach Bum
Homecoming
Fighting in An Age of Loneliness
Knife + Heart
Shadow
Phillip Martin (Arkansas (Democrat-Gazette)
Non-Fiction
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Her Smell
Gloria Bell
Apollo 11
Piers Marchant (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, VOX)
The Hole in the Ground
Her Smell
Under the Silver Lake
Avengers: Endgame
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Dan Marcus (Freelance)
Long Shot
Booksmart
Climax
Gloria Bell
Knock Down the House
Patrick Z. McGavin (RogerEbert)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Non-Fiction
The Souvenir
The Image Book
Steve Mears (Film Comment)
Ash is Purest White
The Image Book
The Souvenir
They Shall Not Grow Old
Transit
Scott Mendelson (Forbes)
Toy Story 4
Us
Shazam
John Wick - Chapter 3
Cold Pursuit
Scott Menzel (We Live Entertainment)
Toy Story 4
Rocketman
Shazam
Booksmart
Long Shot
Jared Mobarak (The Film Stage)
Aniara
Apollo 11
Standoff at Sparrow Creek
The Third Wife
Transit
Roger Moore (Movie Nation)
Gloria Bell
Apollo 11
Say My Name
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Booksmart
Hans Morgenstern (Independent Ethos)
High Life
The Nightingale
The Image Book
The Souvenir
Long Day's Journey Into Night
James Morrison (Claremont McKenna College, Film Historian)
Beach Bum
Charlie Says
Domino
Greta
High Life
Noel Murray (The A.V. Club)
Apollo 11
Avengers: Endgame
The Souvenir
Transit
Us
Charlie Nash (BOFCS)
High Life
Ash is Purest White
Her Smell
Sorry Angel
Long Day's Journey into Night
Matt Neglia (Next Best Picture)
Toy Story 4
Booksmart
Avengers: Endgame
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Us
Festival Favorites: Luce, The Farewell, Brittany Runs a Marathon, Blinded By The Light, The Nightingale
Brian Owens (Artistic Director, Calgary International Film Festival)
Apollo 11
Birds of Passage
Booksmart
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Ruben Brandt, Collector
Priscilla Page (Birth.Movies.Death)
Us
Long Day's Journey Into Night
John Wick: Chapter 3
Shadow
Booksmart
Adam Patterson (Film Pulse)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
John Wick Chapter 3
Us
Avengers: Endgame
Booksmart
Miguel Pendas (Freelance)
Us
Birds of Passage
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Non-Fiction
Sorry Angel
David Poland (Movie City News)
Long Shot
Booksmart
Teen Spirit
Apollo 11
High Flying Bird
Steve Pond (The Wrap)
Wild Rose
Apollo 11
Woman at War
Last Black Man in San Francisco
High Life
Pamela Kammer Powell (NPR)
Ophelia
American Woman
The Biggest Little Farm
The Mustang
Everybody Knows
Paul Preston (The Movie Guys)
Avengers: Endgame
Fighting With My Family
John Wick - Chapter 3
Knock Down the House
Toy Story 4
Ray Pride (Newcity)
Ash is Purest White
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Souvenir
Matt Prigge (Freelance)
Her Smell
Amazing Grace
Under the Silver Lake
Peterloo
Diamantino
C.J. Prince (The Film Stage)
Long Day's Journey Into the Night
Relaxer
Transit
An Elephant Sitting Still
Dragged Across Concrete
Festival Favorites: Ghost Town anthology (dir. Denis Cote) I Was at Home, But (dir. Angela Schanelec)
Claudia Puig (USA Today)
Us
Booksmart
Knock Down the House
Hail, Satan
The Souvenir
Festival favorites: The Farewell
Jordan Raup (The Film Stage)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Transit
Asako 1 & 2
The Souvenir
Dragged Across Concrete
Mara Reinstein (US Weeky)
Avengers: Endgame
Toy Story 4
Us
Always Be My Baby
Late Night
Festival Favorites: The Farewell, Brittany Runs a Marathon, David Crosby: Remember My Name, Mystify
Carrie Rickey (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Amazing Grace
The Souvenir
Booksmart
Rene Rodriguez (Miami Herald)
Under the Silver Lake
Avengers: Endgame
Too Old to Die Young
Rocketman
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Nathaniel Rogers (The Film Experience)
Booksmart
Rocketman
Shadow
Transit
Woman at War
Festival Favorites: Roads, The Garden Left Behind
Joshua Rothkopf (Time Out)
Midsommar
The Souvenir
Apollo 11
Shazam!
Hail Satan?
Jordan Ruimy (World of Reel)
Dogman
Dragged Across Concrete
Gloria Bell
Ash is Purest White
Triple Frontier
Runners-Up: Diamantino, Holiday, Us, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, High Life
Dan Sallitt (The Hollywood Reporter)
Grass
Styx
The Crossing
Dragged Across Concrete
Our Time
Nick Schager (Slant Magazine)
Transit
Under the Silver Lake
Climax
The Beach Bum
Hagazussa
Christopher Schobert (The Buffalo News)
High Life
Transit
Us
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Non-Fiction
Diego Semerene (Slant Magazine)
Wajib
The Wild Pear Tree
The Competition
3 Faces
The Image Book
Gene Seymour (Freelance)
Us
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Shazam
BookSmart
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Jason Shawhan (SEFCA)
Knife + Heart
The Wild Pear Tree
Starfish
Diane
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Yael Shuv (Time Out/Tel Aviv)
Avengers: Endgame
Long Shot
Us
Stan & Ollie
Sir
Alex Simon (The Hollywood Interview)
Amazing Grace
Non-Fiction
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Pasolini
High Life
Matt Singer (Screen Crush)
3 Faces
High Flying Bird
Apollo 11
Us
Shazam
Derek Smith (Slant Magazine)
The Beach Bum
The Souvenir
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Booksmart
Transit
Peter Sobczinski (RogerEbert)
Her Smell
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Toy Story 4
Us
Collin Souter (RogerEbert)
They Shall Not Grow Old
Toy Story 4
Her Smell
Booksmart
Fast Color
Emma Stefansky (Thrillist)
High Flying Bird
Apollo 11
Her Smell
High Life
The Souvenir
David Sterritt (Christian Science Monitor)
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Image Book
The Mustang
3 Faces
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Sara Stewart (New York Post)
Booksmart
Us
Souvenir
Shadow
Yesterday
Tony Joe Stemme (Freelance)
Birds of Passage
Apollo 11
Transit
Last Black Man in San Francisco
Woman at War
Marlow Stern (The Daily Beast)
Her Smell
The Souvenir
Long Day's Journey Into Night
High Life
Knock Down the House
Herb Stratford (Tucson Film Festival)
Birds of Passage
The Souvenir
Sea of Shadows
Apollo 11
Halston
Bob Strauss (Los Angeles Daily News)
Avengers: Endgame
Long Day's Journey Into Night
3 Faces
Toy Story 4
Us
Brian Tallerico (RogerEbert)
Fast Color
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
The Souvenir
Transit
Us
Andrea Thompson (The Young Folks)
Little Woods
Fast Color
Toy Story 4
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
The Souvenir
Anne Thompson (IndieWire/Thompson on Hollywood)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story
Booksmart
Transit
The Edge of Democracy
Apollo 11
Festival Favorites: The Nightingale
Luke Y Thompson (Superherhype)
Lego Movie 2
Toy Story 4
Us
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
Avengers: Endgame
Shane Scott-Travis (Taste of Cinema)
Us
The Beach Bum
Dragged Across Concrete
Birds of Passage
Ash is Purest White
Brian Truitt (USA Today)
Booksmart
Us
Wild Rose
Avengers: Endgame
Long Shot
Kent Turner (Film Forward)
Ash Is Purest White
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy Blache
Birds of Passage
Holiday
Roll Red Roll
Jim Verniere (Boston Herald)
Arctic
Gloria Bell
Diane
Dogman
The Fall of the American Empire
Ronit Vertelney (Letterboxd)
Tell it to the Bees
Braid
Wine Country
Make Me Up
Gulyabani
Daniel Waters (Freelance)
Under the Silver Lake
Diane
Elephant Sitting Still
Climax
Dragged Across Concrete
Jeffrey Wells (Hollywood Elsewhere)
Triple Frontier
Diane
Dragged Across Concrete
Avengers: Endgame
High Flying Bird
Fosse Verdon
Oliver Whitney (Screen Crush)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
Her Smell
Climax
Booksmart
High Life
Matthew Wilder (Writer-Director)
Our Time
An Elephant Sitting Still
Climax
3 Faces
Sunset
Coincoin
Alissa Wilkinson (Vox)
Us
Black Mother
Peterloo
Her Smell
The Souvenir
Amber Wiklinson (Eye For Film)
The Souvenir
The Heiresses
Rocketman
Birds Of Passage
Diamantino
Chuck Wilson (L.A. Weekly/Village Voice)
Long Days Journey Into Night
Ash Is Purest White
Gloria Bell
Transit
Booksmart
Scott aa Wilson (Freelance)
The Souvenir
Madeline's Madeline
Us
Booksmart
Beats
Susan Wloszczyna (Gold Derby, Senior Editor)
Booksmart
Gloria Bell
Rocketman
Woman at War
Always Be My Baby
Stephanie Zacharek (Time)
The Mustang
Gloria Bell
High Life
Birds of Passage
Amazing Grace
Us
The Souvenir