Year-End Lists

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

The Vanity Fair Diaries

Top Tens 2022 Fighting in the War Room
Best Films of 2022 Elena Lazic · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2022 Cinema Scope
Top Ten Films of 2022 Clémence Polès Farhang
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2022 Grace Barber-Plentie · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Movies of 2022 Peter Travers · ABC News · Good Morning America
Top Ten Films of 2022 Brian Darr · Senses of Cinema · Senses of Cinema World Poll
Top Ten Films of 2022 Tomris Laffly · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

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