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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
more...
2020 Movies
Robert Daniels: Top 25 Films of 2020
20 February 2021
Robert Daniels
:
Top 25 Films of 2020
[see also
2021
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2019
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David Byrne's American Utopia
Spike Lee
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
One Night in Miami
Regina King
First Cow
Kelly Reichardt
Night of the Kings
Philippe Lacôte
Martin Eden
Pietro Marcello
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Charlie Kaufman
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
Small Axe: Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen
Time
Garrett Bradley
Babyteeth
Shannon Murphy
The Platform
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens
Matthew Killip
Sound of Metal
Darius Marder
I'm Your Woman
Julia Hart
Small Axe: Mangrove
Steve McQueen
Song Without a Name
Melina León
Pillars
Haley Elizabeth Anderson
The Assistant
Kitty Green
Rewind
Sasha Neulinger
The Vast of Night
Andrew Patterson
Blow the Man Down
Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
George C. Wolfe
Impetigore
Joko Anwar
Wolfwalkers
Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart
Some film that barely missed the cut but I loved nonetheless
The 40-Year-Old Version
Radha Blank
A Sun
Chung Mong-hong
Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg
Black Bear
Lawrence Michael Levine
Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee
Ema
Pablo Larraín
His House
Remi Weekes
I'm No Longer Here
Fernando Frías de la Parra
The Invisible Man
Leigh Whannell
Kajillionaire
Miranda July
La Llorona
Jayro Bustamante
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Eliza Hittman
Promising Young Woman
Emerald Fennell
Relic
Natalie Erika James
She Dies Tomorrow
Amy Seimetz
Vitalina Varela
Pedro Costa