Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

The Orchid Stories (1973)

The 10 Best Films of 2017 Jourdain Searles
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Top 20 Films of 2013 In Review Online
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
Best Films of 2017 Manuela Lazic · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top Ten Films of 2019 Gerald Peary · Filmmaker Magazine · Village Voice Film Poll
11 Best Albums of 2017 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2017 Jaime Christley · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Top 10 Books of 2013 Jane Ciabattari · BBC · BBC Culture
Best Films of 2017 Sean Mulvihill · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Peasant Richard Dawson
Resurrection Bi Gan
Pom Pom Ariel Pink
Motherland
Who Shat On The Floor At My Wedding? And Other Crimes
Paradise Slow Club
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
How Tyrants Fall Marcel Dirsus
Public Speaking Martin Scorsese
Views Drake
Dedicated To Bobby Jameson Ariel Pink
Duende Quincy Troupe

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