107 film critics, largely alt-weekly and alt-minded writers, have been surveyed, including many who have exclusively developed a web-based readership. As Dennis Lim writes in his introduction to this year's poll, "some of the most serious, energized, and cinephilic film writing can now be found online."


Critics List
Sam Adams
(Philadelphia City Paper, Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly)
Jason Anderson
(Eye Weekly, The Globe and Mail, Cinema Scope, CBC arts online)
Melissa Anderson
(Time Out New York)
Tim Appelo
(Seattle Weekly, The Nation, The Oregonian, Entertainment Weekly, KCTS-TV)
Michael Atkinson
(Village Voice, Boston Phoenix, Philadelphia City Paper, IFC Blog)
Saul Austerlitz
(freelance)
Sean Axmaker
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Internet Movie Database, MSN Entertainment, GreenCine)
Donna Bowman
(Nashville Scene, A.V. Club, the Onion)
Richard Brody
(The New Yorker)
Peter Brunette
(Screen International)
Jeannette Catsoulis
(freelance, New York Times, Reverse Shot, Las Vegas CityLife)
Tom Charity
(CNN.com, lovefilm.com, Cinema-Scope, Sight & Sound)
Godfrey Cheshire
(The Independent Weekly)
Daryl Chin
(Documents on Art & Cinema)
James Crawford
(Reverse Shot)
Gary Crowdus
(Cineaste)
Mike D'Angelo
(Esquire, Las Vegas Weekly, Nerve.com)
David D'Arcy
(GreenCine)
Thomas Doherty
(Cineaste)
Bilge Ebiri
(New York Magazine, Nerve.com, Bookforum, TheScreenGrab.com)
Cheryl Eddy
(San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Justine Elias
(freelance, Boston Phoenix, The Observer)
Steve Erickson
(Gay City News, Nerve.com and Time Out New York)
David Fear
(Time Out New York)
Scott Foundas
(L.A. Weekly)
Chris Fujiwara
(insanemute.com)
Graham Fuller
(Interview magazine)
Stephen Garrett
(freelance, Time Out New York, Esquire)
Susan Gerhard
(SF360.org, San Francisco Bay Guardian)
Ed Gonzalez
(Slant Magazine)
Akiva Gottlieb
(freelance)
Andrew Grant
(Like Anna Karina's Sweater)
Ed Halter
(Village Voice)
Dennis Harvey
(Variety, San Francisco Bay Guardian, sf360.com)
Molly Haskell
(TCM Essentials)
Grady Hendrix
(New York Sun, Kaiju Shakedown)
Aaron Hillis
(Premiere Magazine, IFC News, Moviefone, The Reeler)
J. Hoberman
(Village Voice)
Mark Holcomb
(freelance, Time Out New York, the Las Vegas Weekly)
Robert Horton
(The Herald, KUOW-FM, Film Comment)
Johnny Ray Huston
(San Francisco Bay Guardian Contributor, Cinema Scope, sf360.org)
Mark Jenkins
(Washington City Paper)
J.R. Jones
(Chicago Reader)
Kent Jones
(Film Comment, programmer)
Kristin M. Jones
(freelance, Frieze, Film Comment, The Wall Street Journal)
Anthony Kaufman
(freelance, indieWIRE)
Dave Kehr
(davekehr.com)
Ben Kenigsberg
(Time Out Chicago)
Glenn Kenny
(Premiere)
Peter Keough
(Boston Phoenix)
Laura Kern
(Film Comment)
Stuart Klawans
(The Nation)
Robert Koehler
(Variety, Cinema Scope, Cineaste, Christian Science Monitor)
Michael Koresky
(Reverse Shot, Criterion Collection, Interview magazine)
Shelly Kraicer
(film festival consultant)
Jay Kuehner
(Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, GreenCine)
Joshua Land
(freelance)
Nathan Lee
(Village Voice, Film Comment)
Dennis Lim
(freelance)
Phillip Lopate
(NY Film Festival Selection Committee, Film Comment)
Jonathan Marlow
(GreenCine)
Patrick Z. McGavin
(Screen International)
Brian Miller
(Seattle Weekly)
Kristi Mitsuda
(Reverse Shot)
Wesley Morris
(Boston Globe)
Noel Murray
(A.V. Club, The Onion)
Adam Nayman
(Eye Weekly, ELLE Canada, LA Weekly, Cinema Scope)
Rob Nelson
(Village Voice, City Pages)
Andrew O'Hehir
(Salon.com)
Mark Olsen
(Los Angeles Times)
Mark Peranson
(Cinema Scope)
Keith Phipps
(A.V. Club, The Onion)
Andrea Picard
(freelance, Cinema Scope)
Nick Pinkerton
(Reverse Shot, Stop Smiling Magazine)
Richard Porton
(Cineaste)
Ray Pride
(Newcity Chicago, Movie City Indie)
James Quandt
(Cinematheque Ontario, author)
Nathan Rabin
(A.V Club, The Onion)
Nicolas Rapold
(Film Comment)
Jeff Reichert
(Reverse Shot)
Berenice Reynaud
(scholar/critic/curator)
Jim Ridley
(Nashville Scene)
Jonathan Rosenbaum
(Chicago Reader)
Joshua Rothkopf
(Time Out New York)
Michael Joshua Rowin
(Reverse Shot, Cineaste, Stop Smiling, the L Magazine)
Andrew Sarris
(New York Observer)
Nick Schager
(Slant Magazine)
Matt Zoller Seitz
(Newark Star-Ledger, The House Next Door)
Michael Sicinski
(Cinema Scope, Cineaste, The Academic Hack)
Matt Singer
(IFC News, Termite Art)
Elliott Stein
(Village Voice)
Chuck Stephens
(Film Comment, Cinema Scope, San Francisco Bay Guardian)
David Sterritt
(Chairman, National Society of Film Critics)
Benjamin Strong
(freelance, thefanzine.com)
R. Emmet Sweeney
(IFC News, Termite Art)
Amy Taubin
(Film Comment, Sight & Sound)
Charles Taylor
(Newark Star-Ledger, New York Times, Newsday, the New York Observer)
Ella Taylor
(L.A. Weekly)
Scott Tobias
(A.V. Club, The Onion)
Keith Uhlich
(The House Next Door, Slant Magazine)
David Walsh
(World Socialist Web Site)
Armond White
(New York Press)
Matthew Wilder
(City Pages)
Alison Willmore
(IFC News, IFC Blog)
Chuck Wilson
(freelance, L.A. Weekly)
Jessica Winter
(freelance)
Stephanie Zacharek
(Salon.com)