| 5 | Christina Alvarez Lopez | Fandor | 2015 |
| 3 | J. Hoberman | Artforum | 2015 |
| 5 | Andrew Picard | indieWIRE poll | 2015 |
| 6 | Sound and Fury | | 2015 |
| 1 | Amy Taubin | Artforum | 2015 |
| 6 | Ethan Vestby | The Film Stage | 2015 |
| 4 | Reverse Shot | | 2016 |
| 7 | Melissa Anderson | LA Weekly | 2016 |
| 5 | Michael J Anderson | Oklahoma City Museum of Art | 2016 |
| 5 | Miriam Bale | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 5 | Chuck Bowen | Slant | 2016 |
| 4 | Forrest Cardamenis | Brooklyn Magazine | 2016 |
| 6 | Daryl Chin | Documents on Art & Cinema | 2016 |
| 1 | Jake Cole | Slant | 2016 |
| 9 | Adam Cook | indiewire | 2016 |
| 3 | David Coursen | Parallax View | 2016 |
| 1 | Jordan Cronk | CinemaScope | 2016 |
| 1 | Jordan Cronk | Cinema Scope | 2016 |
| 8 | Scott Cummings | Talk House | 2016 |
| 4 | Aaron Cutler | indieWire | 2016 |
| 1 | Manohla Dargis | New York Times | 2016 |
| Brian Darr | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 2 | Diana Drumm | Female Film Critics | 2016 |
| 3 | Steve Erickson | Gay City News | 2016 |
| Shelley Farmer | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 6 | David Fear | Rolling Stone | 2016 |
| 10 | Film Comment | | 2016 |
| 9 | Kenji Fujishima | Slant | 2016 |
| 4 | Chadd Harbold | Talk House | 2016 |
| 3 | Darren Hughes | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 1 | Ren Jender | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 5 | Michael Koresky | Film Society of Lincoln | 2016 |
| Ryan Krivoshey | Grasshopper Film | 2016 |
| 2 | James Lattimer | Slant | 2016 |
| 4 | Steve Macfarlane | Slant Magazine | 2016 |
| 1 | Willow Maclay | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 6 | Myron Meisel | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | 2016 |
| Benjamin Mercer | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 6 | Evan Morgan | Seattle Screen Scene | 2016 |
| 2 | Victoria Negri | Talk House | 2016 |
| 10 | Christina Newland | RogerEbert.com | 2016 |
| 1 | Scott Nye | Battleship Pretension | 2016 |
| 6 | Sheila O'Malley | RogerEbert.com | 2016 |
| 10 | John Oursler | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 9 | Aubrey Page | Collider | 2016 |
| 1 | Seema Pai | Seattle Screen Scene | 2016 |
| Nick Pinkerton | Film Comment | 2016 |
| 1 | Jeff Reichert | Reverse Shot | 2016 |
| 1 | Reverse Shot | | 2016 |
| David Schwartz | indiewire | 2016 |
| 8 | Courtney Sheehan | Northwest Film Forum | 2016 |
| 3 | Tara Sheffer | Filmmaker | 2016 |
| 8 | R. Emmet Sweeney | Streamline | 2016 |
| 5 | Daniel Walber | Nonfics | 2016 |
| 1 | Jason Wierzba | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 7 | Matthew Wilder | Simian Cinema | 2016 |
| 1 | Manuel Yanez Murillo | Film Comment | 2016 |
| 1 | Genevieve Yue | Village Voice | 2016 |