| 3 | Sky Hirschkron | Skandies | 2012 |
| 11 | Olaf Moller | Senses of Cinema Poll | 2012 |
| 4 | Jeffrey M. Anderson | Combustible Celluloid | 2013 |
| 7 | Michael Anderson | Yale University | 2013 |
| 1 | Ali Arikan | RogerEbert.com | 2013 |
| 3 | Adam Batty | 24 Frames Per Second | 2013 |
| 10 | John Beifuss | Scripps Howard News Service | 2013 |
| 11 | John Beifuss | The Commercial Appeal | 2013 |
| 6 | Wiliam Bibbiani | CraveOnline.com | 2013 |
| 1 | Richard Brody | The New Yorker | 2013 |
| 9 | Chris Cabin | Slant Magazine | 2013 |
| 8 | Anthony Carew | The Music | 2013 |
| 8 | Nelson Carvajal | | 2013 |
| 8 | Jessie Cataldo | Slant Magazine | 2013 |
| 8 | John Caterino | Fort Lauderdale Movies Examiner | 2013 |
| 1 | Jamie N. Christley | indieWIRE poll | 2013 |
| 3 | John DeCarli | FilmCapsule.com | 2013 |
| 3 | Bilge Ebiri | Village Voice Poll | 2013 |
| 8 | Max Evry | Film.com | 2013 |
| 1 | James Blake Ewing | Movie Mezzanine | 2013 |
| 9 | Veronika Ferdman | Skandies | 2013 |
| 8 | Ben Flanagan | Aspect Radio | 2013 |
| 4 | Jon Frosch | France 24 | 2013 |
| 10 | Kenji Fujishima | Slant Magazine | 2013 |
| 5 | Andrew Grant | Manifesto Film | 2013 |
| 6 | Glen Heath Jr. | Slant Magazine | 2013 |
| 3 | Jeremy Heilman | Skandies | 2013 |
| 7 | Christoph Huber | Die Presse | 2013 |
| 3 | Matt Hughes | Movie Mezzanine | 2013 |
| 10 | Rob Humanick | Slant Magazine | 2013 |
| 1 | Eric Hynes | Village Voice | 2013 |
| 6 | Kevin Kethum | Movie Mezzanine | 2013 |
| 2 | Michael Koresky | Reverse Shot | 2013 |
| 7 | Evan Kost | AwardsWatch | 2013 |
| 4 | Gary Kramer | Gay City News | 2013 |
| 5 | La Furia Umana | | 2013 |
| 5 | Peter Labuza | The Cinemphillacs | 2013 |
| 8 | Daniel S. Levine | Celebrity Café | 2013 |
| 9 | Brandy McDonnell | BAM | 2013 |
| 8 | Benjamin Mercer | The L Magazine | 2013 |
| 10 | Kristi Mitsuda | Indiewire Poll | 2013 |
| 5 | Brogan Morris | Movie Mezzanine | 2013 |
| 2 | Nictate | Skandies | 2013 |
| 10 | Milan Paurich | | 2013 |
| 2 | Gerald Peary | indieWIRE Poll | 2013 |
| 1 | Nick Pinkerton | Sundance NOW | 2013 |
| 6 | Kenneth Polishchuk | AwardsWatch | 2013 |
| 1 | Matt Prigge | Metro | 2013 |
| 8 | Jordan Raup | The Film Stage | 2013 |
| 1 | Reverse Shot | | 2013 |
| 6 | Jim Ridley | Nashville Scene | 2013 |
| 7 | Jason Shawhan | Nashville Scene | 2013 |
| 1 | Witney Seibold | Crave Online | 2013 |
| 9 | Matt Zoller Seitz | RogerEbert.com | 2013 |
| Will Sloan | | 2013 |
| 10 | Sam Smith | Nashville Scene | 2013 |
| 2 | Ryan Stewart | MovieMaker Magazine | 2013 |
| 8 | Andreas Stoehr | Village Voice Poll | 2013 |
| 5 | Cedric Succivalli | International Cenephile Society | 2013 |
| 4 | R. Emmet Sweeney | Film Comment | 2013 |
| 8 | Blake Williams | IONCINEMA.com | 2013 |
| 6 | Chris Wisniewski | IndieWIRE | 2013 |
| 10 | Ryan Wu | Skandies | 2013 |
| 9 | Addison Wylie | CAST Awards | 2013 |
| 7 | Shahab Yunus | AwardsWatch | 2013 |