| Rank | Critic | Publication | List Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | Dustin Chang | Twitch Film | 2014 |
| 1 | Oliver Lyttleton | The Playlist | 2014 |
| Katie Turner | Sound On Sight | 2014 | |
| 7 | Miriam Bale | village voice poll | 2015 |
| 7 | Andrew Barker | Variety | 2015 |
| 5 | Conor Bateman | Fandor | 2015 |
| Concrete Playground | 2015 | ||
| 6 | Crummy, Colin, The Creators Project) | 2015 | |
| 9 | Greg Cwik | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 5 | Bilge Ebiri | Indie Wire | 2015 |
| 7 | David Ehrlich | Film.com | 2015 |
| 3 | Veronika Ferdman | Skandies | 2015 |
| 2 | Jon Frosch | village voice | 2015 |
| 8 | Tim Grierson | 2015 | |
| 6 | Patrick Heidmann | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 8 | Jordan Hoffman | village voice | 2015 |
| 10 | Tony Huang | Skandies | 2015 |
| 5 | Jessica Kiang | The Playlist | 2015 |
| Danny King | village voice | 2015 | |
| 10 | Tomris Laffly | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 8 | Ryan Lattanzio | indieWIRE | 2015 |
| 8 | Richard Lawson | Vanity Fair | 2015 |
| 7 | Little White Lies | 2015 | |
| 10 | Phillip Lopate | village voice | 2015 |
| 9 | Dominick Mayer | Consequence of Sound | 2015 |
| 4 | Nick Newman | The Film Stage | 2015 |
| 4 | Scott Nye | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| Chris O'Falt | indieWIRE | 2015 | |
| 6 | Matt Prigge | Metro US | 2015 |
| 3 | Jordan Raup | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 3 | Ben Sachs | Chicago Reader | 2015 |
| 4 | Stephen Saito | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 10 | Nigel Smith | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 7 | Cedric Succivalli | International Cinephile Society | 2015 |
| 6 | Michael Tully | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 8 | Kyle Turner | village voice | 2015 |
| 9 | Alison Willmore | BuzzFeed | 2015 |