Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times Marc Mohan, The Oregonian Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune Claudia Puig, USA Today Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly A. O. Scott, New York Times Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Kenn eth T uran , Los Ange les T imes Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News Comprising Lists The two lists below were combined to create the consolidated list. 74 films were represented in the 26 critics’ lists. Note that some of the critics’ lists were unranked and, in this case, usually presented alphabetically. The first list ranks films by how many times they appeared among the different critics’ lists. I found ‘Lincoln’ in 18 lists so it gets 18 points. The second list ranks the films by number of appearances in the best and second best tiers among the critic’s lists. Precedence was given to the films, first, by ‘bests’ and then by ‘second bests’. For example, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and ‘Lincoln’ both had 4 ‘best’ showings but while ‘Lincoln’ had 5 ‘second bests’, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ only had 3, so precedence is given to ‘Lincoln’. Rankings for films that fell in both lists were averaged and a score was produced. A lower score corresponds with a higher ranking in the consolidated list. These scores were compared and ranked to create the consolidated list. By Repeats Above 4 1 . Z e r o D a r k T h i r t y 2 2 2 . A r g o 2 1 3 . L i n c o l n 1 8