Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2024
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2023 Movies
Sean Fennessey: Best Movies of 2023
24 January 2024
Sean Fennessey
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Best Movies of 2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2010s
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan
May December
Todd Haynes
The Taste of Things
Trần Anh Hùng
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer
The Killer
David Fincher
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson
John Wick: Chapter 4
Chad Stahelski
Anatomy of a Fall
Justine Triet
Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster
The Iron Claw
Sean Durkin
Past Lives
Celine Song
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Daniel Goldhaber
Showing Up
Kelly Reichardt
Ferrari
Michael Mann
Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Christopher McQuarrie
The Boy and the Heron
Hayao Miyazaki
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
Beyoncé
R.M.N.
Cristian Mungiu
BlackBerry
Matt Johnson
Priscilla
Sofia Coppola
Passages
Ira Sachs
The Holdovers
Alexander Payne
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Kelly Fremon Craig
Godzilla Minus One
Takashi Yamazaki
Talk to Me
Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
Maestro
Bradley Cooper
Dream Scenario
Kristoffer Borgli
Master Gardener
Paul Schrader
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
William Friedkin
All of Us Strangers
Andrew Haigh
Leave the World Behind
Sam Esmail
Godland
Hlynur Pálmason
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson
Perfect Days
Wim Wenders
A Thousand and One
A.V. Rockwell
You Hurt My Feelings
Nicole Holofcener
Barbie
Greta Gerwig
Napoleon
Ridley Scott
Afire
Christian Petzold
Air
Ben Affleck
Pacifiction
Albert Serra
The Royal Hotel
Kitty Green
They Cloned Tyrone
Juel Taylor
Fallen Leaves
Aki Kaurismäki
The Artifice Girl
Franklin Ritch
The Quiet Girl
Colm Bairéad
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
James Gunn
Sick
John Hyams
When Evil Lurks
Demián Rugna
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Jeff Rowe
Creed III
Michael B. Jordan
20 Days in Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov
Bottoms
Emma Seligman
Evil Dead Rise
Lee Cronin
The Covenant
Guy Ritchie
Sick of Myself
Kristoffer Borgli
Thanksgiving
Eli Roth
Infinity Pool
Brandon Cronenberg
Dreamin' Wild
Bill Pohlad
Fair Play
Chloe Domont
Knock at the Cabin
M. Night Shyamalan
The Pigeon Tunnel
Errol Morris
The Equalizer 3
Antoine Fuqua
Rye Lane
Raine Allen-Miller
No Hard Feelings
Gene Stupnitsky
Fremont
Babak Jalali
The Civil Dead
Clay Tatum
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Wes Anderson
The Burial
Maggie Betts
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Jamie Dack
Suzume
Makoto Shinkai
Beyond Utopia
Madeleine Gavin
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Davis Guggenheim
Memory
Michel Franco
No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield
Unrest
Cyril Schäublin
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi
Scream VI
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
El Conde
Pablo Larraín
Alcarràs
Carla Simón
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Nicole Newnham
Society of the Snow
J.A. Bayona
Earth Mama
Savanah Leaf
M3GAN
Gerard Johnstone
Birth/Rebirth
Laura Moss
Eileen
William Oldroyd
Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
Rob Reiner
The Five Devils
Léa Mysius
The Sweet East
Sean Price Williams
Sanctuary
Zachary Wigon
Theater Camp
Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
Divinity
Eddie Alcazar
Kokomo City
D. Smith
Joy Ride
Adele Lim
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
Steven Soderbergh
Skinamarink
Kyle Edward Ball