| Rank | Critic | Publication | List Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | San Francisco Chronicle | 2014 |
| 3 | Michael Atkinson | Village Voice | 2014 |
| 10 | AV Club | 2014 | |
| 8 | Andreas Babiolakis | Live in Limbo | 2014 |
| 7 | Miriam Bale | New York Daily News | 2014 |
| 1 | Adam Batty | 24 Frames Per Second | 2014 |
| 8 | Christopher Bourne | Twitch | 2014 |
| 3 | Richard Brody | New Yorker | 2014 |
| 1 | Tom Brueggemann | Thompson on Hollywood | 2014 |
| 2 | Cahiers du Cinema | 2014 | |
| 1 | Jake Carr | Sound on Sight | 2014 |
| 10 | Dustin Chang | Twitch Film | 2014 |
| 2 | Daryl Chin | Documenta on Art & Cinema | 2014 |
| 1 | Jake Cole | Slant Magazine | 2014 |
| 3 | Adam Cook | MUBI | 2014 |
| 5 | Richard Corliss | Time Magazine | 2014 |
| 1 | Fernando F. Croce | Slant | 2014 |
| 2 | Jordan Cronk | Cinema Scope | 2014 |
| 3 | Aaron Cutler | Village Voice Poll | 2014 |
| Manohla Dargis | New York Times | 2014 | |
| 1 | Brian Darr | 2014 | |
| 3 | John DeCarli | FilmCapsule.com | 2014 |
| 3 | David Ehrenstein | 2014 | |
| 7 | Steve Erickson | Gay City News | 2014 |
| 2 | Film Comment | 2014 | |
| 1 | Scott Foundas | Variety | 2014 |
| 3 | Jaime Grijalba | 2014 | |
| 2 | Larry Gross | Village Voice Poll | 2014 |
| 6 | Molly Haskell | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 4 | Gary Heath Jr. | Little White Lies | 2014 |
| 2 | Aaron Hillis | Village Voice | 2014 |
| 1 | J. Hoberman | Artforum | 2014 |
| 4 | Peter Howell | Toronto Star | 2014 |
| 2 | David Hudson | Fandor Keyframe | 2014 |
| 6 | Darren Hughes | Long Pauses | 2014 |
| 3 | Eric Hynes | Film Comment | 2014 |
| 3 | Mark Jenkins | NPR | 2014 |
| 1 | Danny Kasman | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 6 | Ben Kenigsberg | AV Club | 2014 |
| 5 | Glenn Kenny | RogerEbert.com | 2014 |
| 2 | Nelson Kim | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 6 | Ryland Walker Knight | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 2 | Jay Kuehner | Cinema Sope | 2014 |
| 2 | Peter Labuza | Variety | 2014 |
| 5 | Ty Landis | Sound On Sight | 2014 |
| 2 | Cody Lang | Sound On Sight | 2014 |
| 1 | Kevin Lee | Keyframe | 2014 |
| 4 | Dennis Lim | Lincoln Center | 2014 |
| 7 | Matthew Lucas | Lexington Dispatch | 2014 |
| 2 | Calum Marsh | Details | 2014 |
| 4 | Jeff McCloud | Skandies | 2014 |
| 3 | Patrick McGavin | RogerEbert.com | 2014 |
| 4 | Jennifer Merin | About.com | 2014 |
| 8 | Morad Moazami | Sound On Sight | 2014 |
| 8 | Angelo Muredda | Cinema Scope | 2014 |
| 2 | V.A. Musetto | New York Post | 2014 |
| Adam Nayman | Cinema Scope | 2014 | |
| 1 | Rob Nelson | Minneapolis Star Tribune | 2014 |
| 3 | Scott Bye | Battleship Pretension | 2014 |
| John Powers | Vogue | 2014 | |
| 1 | James Quandt | Artforum | 2014 |
| Nicolas Rapold | L Magazine | 2014 | |
| 4 | Reverse Shot | 2014 | |
| 3 | Rania Richardson | NYC Community Media LLC | 2014 |
| 7 | Vadim Rizov | Skandies | 2014 |
| 5 | Jonathan Romney | Film Comment | 2014 |
| 1 | Jonathan Rosenbaum | JonathanRosenbaum.com | 2014 |
| 5 | Matt Zoller Seitz | RogerEbert.com | 2014 |
| 2 | Michael Sicinski | indieWire poll | 2014 |
| 2 | Sight and Sound Poll | 2014 | |
| Josh Slater-Williams | Sound on Sight | 2014 | |
| Justine Smith | Sound on Sight | 2014 | |
| 1 | David Sterritt | Tikkun | 2014 |
| 4 | Andreas Stoehr | indieWire Poll | 2014 |
| 4 | Cedric Succivalli | International Cinephile Society | 2014 |
| 5 | R. Emmet Sweeney | Movie Morlocks | 2014 |
| 1 | Amy Taubin | Artforum | 2014 |
| 4 | Ella Taylor | Indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 10 | Carman Tse | Laist | 2014 |
| Katie Turner | Sound On Sight | 2014 | |
| 5 | Village Voice Film Poll | 2014 | |
| 7 | Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | AV Club | 2014 |
| 3 | Zachary Wigon | Village Voice | 2014 |
| 1 | Matthew Wilder | Towards a Simian Cinema | 2014 |
| 1 | Blake Williams | ioncinema | 2014 |
| 10 | Ryan Wu | Skandies | 2014 |
| 8 | Jason Coyle | Scannain.com | 2015 |
| 8 | Ben Sachs | Chicago Reader | 2015 |