Year-End Lists

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

Movies
Holy Motors - Leos Carax

27 Best Movies of 2012 New Yorker: Richard Brody

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

25 Best Films of 2012 David Ehrlich

10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

10 Best Movies of 2012 Entertainment Weekly: Lisa Schwarzbaum

10 Best Movies of 2012 Entertainment Weekly: Owen Gleiberman

Amour - Michael Haneke

10 Best Films of 2012 Tom Shone

The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson

Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound Poll

10 Best Movies of 2012 Time: Richard Corliss

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

30+ Best Movies of 2012 HuffPost

Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg

Top 10 Films of 2012 Artforum: Amy Taubin

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

Top Ten Movies of 2012 New York: David Edelstein

The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Davies

10 Best Films of 2012 Artforum: John Waters

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

Top Ten Films of 2012 Cahiers du Cinéma

20 Best Films of 2011 Skandies

This is Not a Film - Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope

Favorite Films of 2011 San Francisco Bay Guardian: Dennis Harvey

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Top 10 Films of 2011 Philadelphia Weekly: Sean Burns

House of Pleasures - Bertrand Bonello

Top Ten Films of 2011 Philadelphia Weekly: Matt Prigge

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Top 20 Films of 2011 Empire

10 Best Films of 2011 Reverse Shot

20 Best Films of 2011 Les Inrocks

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2011 Marya E. Gates

Of Gods and Men - Xavier Beauvois

10 Best Films of 2011 Chicago Reader: J.R. Jones

Aurora - Cristi Puiu

20 Best Films of 2011 Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs