Year-End Lists

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

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Lists

The Best Movies of 2019 Polygon
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Polygon
Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll

Trending Lists

21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top Ten Films of 2025 Clémence Polès Farhang
50 Best Albums of 2020 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 20 Albums of 2025 Spectrum Culture
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki
Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson
first half of Melancholia Lars von Trier
Lonely People with Power Deafheaven
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay
All Fours Miranda July
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
Anora Sean Baker
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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