| Patrick Allan | LifeHacker | 2016 |
| 9 | Reverse Shot | | 2016 |
| 10 | Jason Anderson | Village Voice Poll | 2016 |
| 10 | Michael J Anderson | Oklahoma City Museum of Art | 2016 |
| The Arts Desk | | 2016 |
| 9 | Cameron Bailey | indieWIRE | 2016 |
| 9 | Stephanie Barber | Talkhouse | 2016 |
| 10 | Nicholas Bell | Ioncinema | 2016 |
| Abbey Bender | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 9 | Matt Blais | Toronto Film Review | 2016 |
| Frederic Boyer | Tribeca Film Festival | 2016 |
| 7 | Annabel Brady-Brown | Fireflies | 2016 |
| 8 | Deragh Campbell | Toronto Film Review | 2016 |
| 3 | Dustin Chang | Screen Anarchy | 2016 |
| 4 | Seongyong Cho | RogerEbert.com | 2016 |
| 2 | Brandon Colvin | Talk House | 2016 |
| 8 | Julia Cooper | Village Voice | 2016 |
| Brian Darr | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 1 | Nick Davis | Film Comment | 2016 |
| 5 | Ernesto Diezmartinez | Reforma | 2016 |
| 3 | Diana Drumm | Female Film Critics | 2016 |
| 9 | Alonso Duralde | TheWrap | 2016 |
| 2 | Ken Eisner | Georgia Straight | 2016 |
| 9 | Steve Erickson | Gay City News | 2016 |
| 9 | Film Comment | | 2016 |
| 4 | Freja | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 7 | Jon Frosch | Village Voice | 2016 |
| 10 | Alex Fung | Skandies | 2016 |
| 7 | Lawrence Garcia | Mubi | 2016 |
| Ryan Gilbey | New Statesman | 2016 |
| 2 | Niclas Goldberg | Filmrutan | 2016 |
| Andrew Haigh | Director | 2016 |
| 10 | Glenn Heath Jr. | San Diego City Beat | 2016 |
| 8 | Patrick Heidmann | Berliner Zeitung | 2016 |
| 10 | Stephen Holden | New York Times | 2016 |
| 5 | Robert Horton | Seattle Weekly | 2016 |
| Yue Huang | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 5 | David Hudson | Keyframe | 2016 |
| 5 | Wendy Ide | Scren Interternational | 2016 |
| Richard T. Jameson | Parallax View | 2016 |
| 8 | Glen Kenny | Twitter | 2016 |
| 8 | Peter Keough | Boston Globe | 2016 |
| 10 | Max Kermode | The Guardian | 2016 |
| 2 | Jessica Kiang | The Playlist | 2016 |
| Nelson Kim | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 2 | Tomris Laffly | Film School Rejects | 2016 |
| 9 | Eric Lavallee | IONCINEMA.com | 2016 |
| 4 | Richard Lawson | Vanity Fair | 2016 |
| 7 | Kevin B. Lee | Fandor | 2016 |
| 10 | Les Inrockuptibles | | 2016 |
| 7 | Nikhil Letha-Soman | The Cinemaholic | 2016 |
| Violet Lucca | Film Comment | 2016 |
| 7 | Oli Lyttelton | The Playlist | 2016 |
| 4 | Sinead McCausland | Film School Rejects | 2016 |
| 3 | Myron Meisel | Los Angeles Film Critics Association | 2016 |
| 7 | Evan Morgan | Seattle Screen Scene | 2016 |
| 6 | Adam Nayman | Cinema Scope | 2016 |
| 3 | Farran Smith Nehme | Film Comment | 2016 |
| Mark Olsen | Los Angeles Times | 2016 |
| 6 | Seema Pai | Seattle Screen Scene | 2016 |
| Nick Pinkerton | Film Comment | 2016 |
| 8 | Peter Rainer | Christian Science Monitor | 2016 |
| 2 | Vadim Rizov | Filmmaker Magazine | 2016 |
| 5 | Jonathan Romney | Film Comment | 2016 |
| 8 | Sophy Romvari | Filmmaker | 2016 |
| 5 | Lisa Rosman | NY1 | 2016 |
| 1 | Dan Sallitt | InidieWire | 2016 |
| 8 | San Francisco Chronicle Consensus | | 2016 |
| 10 | AO Scott | New York Times | 2016 |
| 8 | Sight & Sound | | 2016 |
| 2 | The Skinny | | 2016 |
| Amir Soltani | Toronto Film Review | 2016 |
| 3 | Matthew Stein | Toronto Film Review | 2016 |
| 10 | Ryan Swen | Seattle Screen Scene | 2016 |
| 7 | Ella Taylor | NPR | 2016 |
| 3 | Lorna Tee | indiewire | 2016 |
| 10 | Josh Timmermann | Senses of Cinema | 2016 |
| 6 | TOFilmCritic | | 2016 |
| 8 | C. Mason Wells | Skandies | 2016 |
| 10 | Alissa Wilkinson | Vox | 2016 |
| 7 | Alison Willmore | BuzzFeed | 2016 |
| 9 | Ryan Wu | Skandies | 2016 |