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

2020 Movies

CBS News: David Morgan: The 10 Best Films of 2020

30 December 2020

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

David Morgan: The 10 Best Films of 2020, as posted by CBS News

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

  1. First Cow
    Kelly Reichardt
  2. Nomadland
    Chloé Zhao
  3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
    Eliza Hittman
  4. 76 days
    Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and Anonymous
  5. Beanpole
    Kantemir Balagov
  6. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
    George C. Wolfe
  7. Wolfwalkers
    Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
  8. Sound of Metal
    Darius Marder
  9. Soul
    Pete Docter
  10. Small Axe: Lovers Rock
    Steve McQueen

Special Mention

Recent Lists

By Year

By Category

Trending Works

Archive

About

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.