Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Book Riot: Connie Pan: 12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2024
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2024
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
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2010s Movies
Film School Rejects: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
13 November 2019
Film School Rejects
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The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s
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2018
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2017
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Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
Get Out
Jordan Peele
Parasite
Bong Joon-ho
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
The Social Network
David Fincher
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson
What We Do in the Shadows
Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi
The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos
Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel & Ethan Coen
Call Me by Your Name
Luca Guadagnino
Gone Girl
David Fincher
The Farewell
Lulu Wang
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
Annihilation
Alex Garland
Paddington 2
Paul King
The Florida Project
Sean Baker
The Witch
Robert Eggers
Arrival
Denis Villeneuve
Logan
James Mangold
Let the Sunshine In
Claire Denis
Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig
Phoenix
Christian Petzold
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Rian Johnson
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
Certified Copy
Abbas Kiarostami
Burning
Lee Chang-dong
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese
True Grit
Joel & Ethan Coen
20th Century Women
Mike Mills
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Brad Bird
Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy
Hereditary
Ari Aster
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Taika Waititi
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
First Reformed
Paul Schrader
Green Room
Jeremy Saulnier
Toni Erdmann
Maren Ade
Eighth Grade
Bo Burnham
No Home Movie
Chantal Akerman
The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook
Cold War
Pawel Pawlikowski
Inception
Christopher Nolan
Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach
Faces Places
Agnès Varda and JR
The Nice Guys
Shane Black
Mandy
Panos Cosmatos
Foxtrot
Samuel Maoz
Upstream Color
Shane Carruth
The Cabin in the Woods
Drew Goddard
Black Panther
Ryan Coogler
Wonder Woman
Patty Jenkins
Oslo, August 31st
Joachim Trier
Only Lovers Left Alive
Jim Jarmusch
Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer
Force Majeure
Ruben Östlund
Swiss Army Man
Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
You Were Never Really Here
Lynne Ramsay
Inherent Vice
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
Elle
Paul Verhoeven
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Anthony and Joe Russo
La La Land
Damien Chazelle
Young Adult
Jason Reitman
Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley
The Grey
Joe Carnahan
Goodbye First Love
Mia Hansen-Løve
Carol
Todd Haynes
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Céline Sciamma
Attack the Block
Joe Cornish
Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance
The Raid: Redemption
Gareth Evans
Thelma
Joachim Trier
Her
Spike Jonze
Gravity
Alfonso Cuaron
Melancholia
Lars von Trier
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Banksy
Blindspotting
Carlos López Estrada
Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve
John Wick
Chad Stahelski
I Saw the Devil
Kim Ji-woon
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan
Magic Mike XXL
Gregory Jacobs
Revenge
Coralie Fargeat
Margaret
Kenneth Lonergan
Goodnight Mommy
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson
Shin Godzilla
Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi
Holy Motors
Leos Carax
American Honey
Andrea Arnold
The Invitation
Karyn Kusama
Kill List
Ben Wheatley
High Life
Claire Denis
Mustang
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Edgar Wright
A Ghost Story
David Lowery
Silence
Martin Scorsese
Borg vs. McEnroe
Janus Metz
Bone Tomahawk
S. Craig Zahler