Year-End Lists

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

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Best Films of 2022 Elena Lazic · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2022 Brian Darr · Senses of Cinema · Senses of Cinema World Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2022 Grace Barber-Plentie · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2022 Cinema Scope
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Movies of 2022 Peter Travers · ABC News · Good Morning America
Top Ten Films of 2022 Tomris Laffly · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Movies of 2022 Guy Lodge
Top Ten Films of 2022 Clémence Polès Farhang
Top Tens 2022 Fighting in the War Room

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