Year-End Lists

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

Craft in the Real World

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Tens 2022 Fighting in the War Room
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2022 Elena Lazic · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2022 Cinema Scope
Top Ten Films of 2022 Brian Darr · Senses of Cinema · Senses of Cinema World Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2022 Tomris Laffly · RogerEbert.com
Top Ten Films of 2022 Cahiers du Cinéma

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