| 3 | Livia Bloom | Filmmaker Magazine | 2013 |
| 6 | Tom Brook | BBC | 2013 |
| Manohla Dargis | New York Times | 2013 |
| 6 | Kurt Halfyard | RowThree.com | 2013 |
| 10 | Chris Stults | Skandies | 2013 |
| 6 | Kaleem Aftab | The Independent | 2014 |
| 6 | Michael Anderson | Oklahoma City Museum of Art | 2014 |
| 2 | Michael Atkinson | Village Voice | 2014 |
| 9 | Saul Austerlitz | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 5 | Joshua Brunsting | Criterion Cast | 2014 |
| 10 | Ty Burr | Boston Globe | 2014 |
| 4 | Travis Crawford | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| Manohla Dargis | New York Times | 2014 |
| 9 | Brian Darr | | 2014 |
| 2 | Cynthia Fuchs | Pop Matters | 2014 |
| 7 | Kenji Fujishima | In Review Online | 2014 |
| 3 | Leo Goldsmith | indiewire poll | 2014 |
| 1 | Steve Greene | Criticwire | 2014 |
| 5 | Gary Heath Jr. | Little White Lies | 2014 |
| 4 | Eric Henderson | CBS Minnesota | 2014 |
| 9 | Eugene Hernandez | Film Society | 2014 |
| 10 | Alexander Huls | New York Times | 2014 |
| 9 | Eric Hynes | Film Comment | 2014 |
| 3 | Peter Keough | Boston Globe | 2014 |
| Lesli Klainberg | Film Society of Lincoln Center | 2014 |
| 3 | Eric Kohn | Indiewire | 2014 |
| 6 | Michael Koresky | Reverse Shot | 2014 |
| 5 | Peter Labuza | Variety | 2014 |
| 9 | Phillip Lopate | Film Comment | 2014 |
| 3 | Marsha McCreadie | Film Journal International | 2014 |
| 6 | Kristi Mitsuda | Reverse Shot | 2014 |
| 9 | Angelo Muredda | Cinema Scope | 2014 |
| Adam Nayman | Cinema Scope | 2014 |
| 10 | Michael Nordine | LA Weekly | 2014 |
| 8 | Pat Padua | Dcist | 2014 |
| 6 | Reverse Shot | | 2014 |
| 3 | Andreas Stoehr | indieWire Poll | 2014 |
| 9 | Scott Tafoya | RogerEbert.com | 2014 |
| 9 | Scout Tagoya | | 2014 |
| 6 | Michael Tully | Hammer to Nail | 2014 |
| 5 | Matthew Wilder | Towards a Simian Cinema | 2014 |
| 4 | Blake Williams | ioncinema | 2014 |
| 9 | Chris Wisniewski | Indiewire Poll | 2014 |