Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
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Highlights
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Albums of 2024
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2020 Movies
Sean Fennessey: My Favorite Movies of 2020
31 December 2020
Sean Fennessey
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My Favorite Movies of 2020
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Mank
David Fincher
Small Axe: Mangrove
Steve McQueen
Soul
Pete Docter
Boys State
Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao
First Cow
Kelly Reichardt
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Charlie Kaufman
The Vast of Night
Andrew Patterson
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Kirsten Johnson
Small Axe: Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Eliza Hittman
David Byrne's American Utopia
Spike Lee
City Hall
Frederick Wiseman
Palm Springs
Max Barbakow
Possessor Uncut
Brandon Cronenberg
Time
Garrett Bradley
Bacurau
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Da 5 Bloods
Spike Lee
Tenet
Christopher Nolan
Let Them All Talk
Steven Soderbergh
The Truffle Hunters
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw
Shithouse
Cooper Raiff
Gunda
Viktor Kosakovskiy
The Assistant
Kitty Green
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
George C. Wolfe
One Night in Miami
Regina King
Bad Education
Cory Finley
The Invisible Man
Leigh Whannell
Small Axe: Red, White and Blue
Steve McQueen
Promising Young Woman
Emerald Fennell
The Way Back
Gavin O’Connor
On the Rocks
Sofia Coppola
The Last Dance
Jason Hehir
Martin Eden
Pietro Marcello
Driveways
Andrew Ahn
Another Round
Thomas Vinterberg
Beastie Boys Story
Spike Jonze
Sound of Metal
Darius Marder
The Traitor
Marco Bellocchio
The Wild Goose Lake
Diao Yinan
Tommaso
Abel Ferrara
The Climb
Michael Angelo Covino
His House
Remi Weekes
The Dark and the Wicked
Bryan Bertino
Feels Good Man
Arthur Jones
40 Years a Prisoner
Tommy Oliver
La Llorona
Jayro Bustamante
Small Axe: Alex Wheatle
Steve McQueen
Fourteen
Dan Sallitt
Birds of Prey
Cathy Yan
She Dies Tomorrow
Amy Seimetz
Assassins
Ryan White
News of the World
Paul Greengrass
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Aaron Sorkin
My Psychedelic Love Story
Errol Morris
The King of Staten Island
Judd Apatow
Pieces of a Woman
Kornél Mundruczó
Freaky
Christopher Landon
Kajillionaire
Miranda July
Totally Under Control
Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger
Color Out of Space
Richard Stanley
The Trip to Greece
Michael Winterbottom
Shirley
Josephine Decker
Babyteeth
Shannon Murphy
Blood Quantum
Jeff Barnaby
On the Record
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
Selah and the Spades
Tayarisha Poe
The Old Guard
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Let Him Go
Thomas Bezucha
The Nest
Sean Durkin
Sorry We Missed You
Ken Loach
Onward
Dan Scanlon
Bad Boys for Life
Adil & Bilall
Vitalina Varela
Pedro Costa
Collective
Alexander Nanau
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
Blow the Man Down
Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy
Emma.
Autumn de Wilde
Relic
Natalie Erika James
Small Axe: Education
Steve McQueen
The Whistlers
Corneliu Porumboiu
Extraction
Sam Hargrave
Hubie Halloween
Steven Brill
Hamilton
Thomas Kail
The Beach House
Jeffrey A. Brown
Big Time Adolescence
Jason Orley
Sylvie's Love
Eugene Ashe
Greenland
Ric Roman Waugh
The Painter and the Thief
Benjamin Ree
The Informer
Andrea Di Stefano
Coup 53
Taghi Amirani
The Dissident
Bryan Fogel
Night of the Kings
Philippe Lacôte
Host
Rob Savage
Run
Aneesh Chaganty
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado
Cristina Costantini and Kareem Tabsch
Be Water
Bao Nguyen
In Search of Darkness
David A. Weiner
Banana Split
Benjamin Kasulke