National Board of Review: Top Ten Independent Films

The following is a list of the Top 10 Independent Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 2006.

2000s

 * 2006:
 * 10 Items or Less
 * Akeelah and the Bee
 * Bobby
 * Catch a Fire
 * Copying Beethoven
 * A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
 * Half Nelson
 * The Illusionist
 * Lonesome Jim
 * Sherrybaby
 * Thank You for Smoking


 * 2007:
 * Away from Her
 * Great World of Sound
 * Honeydripper
 * In the Valley of Elah
 * A Mighty Heart
 * The Namesake
 * Once
 * The Savages
 * Starting Out in the Evening
 * Waitress


 * 2008:
 * Frozen River
 * In Bruges
 * In Search of a Midnight Kiss
 * Mister Foe
 * Rachel Getting Married
 * Snow Angels
 * Son of Rambow
 * Wendy and Lucy
 * Vicky Cristina Barcelona
 * The Visitor


 * 2009:
 * Amreeka
 * District 9
 * Goodbye Solo
 * Humpday
 * In the Loop
 * Julia
 * Me and Orson Welles
 * Moon
 * Sugar
 * Two Lovers

2010s

 * 2010:
 * Animal Kingdom
 * Buried
 * Fish Tank
 * The Ghost Writer
 * Greenberg
 * Let Me In
 * Monsters
 * Please Give
 * Somewhere
 * Youth in Revolt


 * 2011:
 * 50/50
 * Another Earth
 * Beginners
 * A Better Life
 * Cedar Rapids
 * Margin Call
 * Shame
 * Take Shelter
 * We Need To Talk About Kevin
 * Win Win


 * 2012:
 * Arbitrage
 * Bernie
 * Compliance
 * End of Watch
 * Hello I Must Be Going
 * Little Birds
 * Moonrise Kingdom
 * On the Road
 * Quartet
 * Sleepwalk with Me


 * 2013:
 * Ain't Them Bodies Saints
 * Dallas Buyers Club
 * In a World...
 * Mother of George
 * Much Ado About Nothing
 * Mud
 * The Place Beyond the Pines
 * Short Term 12
 * Sightseers
 * The Spectacular Now


 * 2014:
 * Blue Ruin
 * Locke
 * A Most Wanted Man
 * Mr. Turner
 * Obvious Child
 * The Skeleton Twins
 * Snowpiercer
 * Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
 * Starred Up
 * Still Alice


 * 2015:
 * '71
 * 45 Years
 * Cop Car
 * Ex Machina
 * Grandma
 * It Follows
 * James White
 * Mississippi Grind
 * Welcome to Me
 * While We’re Young


 * 2016:
 * 20th Century Women
 * Captain Fantastic
 * Creative Control
 * Eye in the Sky
 * The Fits
 * Green Room
 * Hello, My Name Is Doris
 * Krisha
 * Morris from America
 * Sing Street


 * 2017:
 * Beatriz at Dinner
 * Brigsby Bear
 * A Ghost Story
 * Lady Macbeth
 * Logan Lucky
 * Loving Vincent
 * Menashe
 * Norman
 * Patti Cake$
 * Wind River


 * 2018:
 * The Death of Stalin
 * Lean on Pete
 * Leave No Trace
 * Mid90s
 * The Old Man & the Gun
 * The Rider
 * Searching
 * Sorry to Bother You
 * We the Animals
 * You Were Never Really Here


 * 2019:
 * The Farewell
 * Give Me Liberty
 * A Hidden Life
 * Judy
 * The Last Black Man in San Francisco
 * Midsommar
 * The Nightingale
 * The Peanut Butter Falcon
 * The Souvenir
 * Wild Rose

2020s

 * 2020:
 * The Climb
 * Driveways
 * Farewell Amor
 * Miss Juneteenth
 * The Nest
 * Never Rarely Sometimes Always
 * The Outpost
 * Relic
 * Saint Frances
 * Wolfwalkers


 * 2021:
 * The Card Counter
 * C'mon C'mon
 * CODA
 * The Green Knight
 * Holler
 * Jockey
 * Old Henry
 * Pig
 * Shiva Baby
 * The Souvenir Part II


 * 2022:
 * Armageddon Time
 * Emily the Criminal
 * The Eternal Daughter
 * Funny Pages
 * The Inspection
 * Living
 * A Love Song
 * Nanny
 * To Leslie
 * The Wonder


 * 2023:
 * All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
 * All of Us Strangers
 * BlackBerry
 * Earth Mama
 * Flora and Son
 * The Persian Version
 * Scrapper
 * Showing Up
 * Theater Camp
 * A Thousand and One