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
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Highlights
New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2022
New Yorker: The Best Nonfiction of 2022
NPR Music: Bob Boilen: Top Ten Albums of 2018
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2022
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
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2012 Movies
Huffington Post: 30+ Best Movies of 2012
07 December 2012
Huffington Post
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30+ Best Movies of 2012
[see also
2022
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Zero Dark Thirty
Kathryn Bigelow
Lincoln
Steven Spielberg
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin
Argo
Ben Affleck
Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino
Moonrise Kingdom
Wes Anderson
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell
Skyfall
Sam Mendes
Les Misérables
Tom Hooper
Looper
Rian Johnson
The Avengers
Joss Whedon
Life of Pi
Ang Lee
The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson
The Dark Knight Rises
Christopher Nolan
The Hunger Games
Gary Ross
Pitch Perfect
Jason Moore
Amour
Michael Haneke
21 Jump Street
Phil Lord and Chris Miller
Flight
Robert Zemeckis
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
Holy Motors
Leos Carax
The Impossible
Juan Antonio Bayona
ParaNorman
Chris Butler & Sam Fell
Wreck-It Ralph
Rich Moore
Promised Land
Gus Van Sant
Magic Mike
Steven Soderbergh
The Cabin in the Woods
Drew Goddard
The Grey
Joe Carnahan
Sleepwalk With Me
Mike Birbiglia and Seth Barrish
The Sessions
Ben Lewin
This Is 40
Judd Apatow
Ruby Sparks
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Celeste & Jesse Forever
Lee Toland Krieger