Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
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Books
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Cahiers du Cinéma
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Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone
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The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire
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Top 50 Albums of 2025
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David France
Welcome to Chechnya
Best Films of 2020
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Ed Gonzalez: Slant
Top 20 Films of 2020
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Joshua Rothkopf
The Best Films of 2020
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Slant
The Best Movies of 2020
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Nick Schager: Esquire
The 10 Best Films of 2020
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Jason Shawhan: Nashville Scene
The 25 Best Movies of 2020
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Alissa Wilkinson: Vox
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
Top 25 Movies of 2012
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Wesley Morris: Boston Globe
10 Best Movies of 2012
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Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York
25 Favorite Films of 2012
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A.O. Scott: New York Times
Top Ten Movies of 2012
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David Edelstein: New York
Top 11 Films of 2012
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Stephen Holden: New York Times
10 Best Movies of 2012
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Lisa Schwarzbaum: Entertainment Weekly
25 Best Films of 2012
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Slant
Top 50 Films of 2012
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IndieWire: IndieWire Poll
50 Best Films of 2012
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Film Comment: Film Comment Poll
Top 10 Books of 2016
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San Francisco Chronicle
15 Best Movies of 2012
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Dana Stevens: Slate
10 Best Movies of 2012
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Atlantic Wire
The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s
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Lit Hub