| 5 | Russ Fischer | Slash Film | 2014 |
| 7 | Sam Adams | village voice poll | 2015 |
| 8 | Jason Anderson | Village Voice | 2015 |
| 4 | The AV Club | | 2015 |
| 9 | Matt Barone | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 5 | Daniel Barnes | Sacramento News & Review | 2015 |
| 3 | Nicholas Bell | IonCinema | 2015 |
| 8 | William Bibbiani | Crave Online | 2015 |
| 10 | Steven Boone | village voice poll | 2015 |
| 1 | Matt Brennan | indieWire | 2015 |
| 5 | Matthew Butcher, Skandies | | 2015 |
| Donald Clarke | Irish Times | 2015 |
| 5 | Jason Coyle | Scannain.com | 2015 |
| 4 | Travis Crawford | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 1 | Greg Cwik | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 1 | Mike D'Angelo | villagevoice | 2015 |
| 7 | John DeCarli | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 6 | Ernesto Diezmartinez | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 5 | Doug Dilliman, Skandies | | 2015 |
| 7 | Steve Dollar | village voice | 2015 |
| 7 | A.A. Dowd | AV Club | 2015 |
| 6 | David Ehrlich | Film.com | 2015 |
| 7 | Chris Evangelista | CutPrintFilm | 2015 |
| 8 | Devin Faraci | Village Voice | 2015 |
| 4 | David Fear | Time Out New York | 2015 |
| Bryant Frazer | Skandies | 2015 |
| 8 | Kenji Fujishima | Slant | 2015 |
| 1 | Alex Fung | Skandies | 2015 |
| 1 | Paul Gilbert | Young Folks | 2015 |
| 3 | Lance Goldenberg | village voice | 2015 |
| 7 | Jaime Grijalba | Fandor | 2015 |
| 2 | Nik Grozdanovic | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 5 | Britt Hayes | Birth Movies Death | 2015 |
| 7 | Jeremy Heilman | Skandies | 2015 |
| 5 | Eric Henderson | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 6 | Aaron Hillis | Village Voice | 2015 |
| 2 | Jordan Hoffman | village voice | 2015 |
| 9 | Robert Horton | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 7 | David Huffman | IdeaStream | 2015 |
| 9 | Alexander Huls | New York Times | 2015 |
| Tara Juda | Fandor | 2015 |
| 9 | Keyframe Critics (Fandor.com) | | 2015 |
| 10 | Robert Koehler | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 9 | Oktay Ege Kozak | The Playlist | 2015 |
| 2 | Adam Lubitow | Rochester City Newspaper | 2015 |
| 9 | Oliver Lyttelton | The Playlist | 2015 |
| 6 | Erik McClanahan | The Playlist | 2015 |
| 7 | Brent McKnight | CinemaBlend | 2015 |
| 4 | Victor Morton | Skandies | 2015 |
| 4 | Noel Murray | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 7 | Ben Nicholson | CineVue | 2015 |
| 1 | Max O'Connell | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 4 | Charles Odell | Skandies | 2015 |
| 4 | John Oursler | village voice | 2015 |
| 2 | Pat Padua | indieWire Poll | 2015 |
| 4 | Mark Pittillo | skandies | 2015 |
| 3 | Playlist Staff (Indiewire) | | 2015 |
| 3 | CJ Prince | village voice | 2015 |
| 3 | Katie Rife | AV | 2015 |
| 10 | Rene Rodriguez | Miami Herald | 2015 |
| 3 | Shane Scott-Travis | Taste of Cinema | 2015 |
| 1 | John Seal | Berkeleyside | 2015 |
| 4 | Matt Singer | Screen Crush | 2015 |
| 1 | Justine Smith | Fandor | 2015 |
| 5 | David Sterritt | Quarterly Review of Film and Video | 2015 |
| 9 | Alice Stoehr | village voice | 2015 |
| 6 | Ben Umstead | Twitch Film | 2015 |
| Vanderwerff, Todd | | 2015 |
| 9 | Daniel Waters | Skandies | 2015 |
| 10 | Thomas Willett | Optigrab | 2015 |
| 1 | Sam Woolf | We Got This Covered | 2015 |
| 3 | Ryan Wu | Skandies | 2015 |