Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
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Highlights
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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
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2015 Movies
Paste: 50 Best Movies of 2015
01 January 2016
Paste Magazine
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50 Best Movies of 2015
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Chi-Raq
Spike Lee
Cartel Land
Matthew Heineman
The Tribe
Miroslav Slaboshpitsky
White God
Kornél Mundruczó
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz
The End of the Tour
James Ponsoldt
Anomalisa
Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson
Time Out of Mind
Oren Moverman
Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller
Mistress America
Noah Baumbach
Experimenter
Michael Almereyda
Eden
Mia Hansen-Løve
Phoenix
Christian Petzold
Heart of a Dog
Laurie Anderson
Iris
Albert Maysles
The Hateful Eight
Quentin Tarantino
Love & Mercy
Bill Pohlad
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Amy Berg
The Assassin
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Mississippi Grind
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden
Seymour: An Introduction
Ethan Hawke
Son of Saul
László Nemes
Inside Out
Pete Docter
Western
Bill Ross
Hard to Be a God
Aleksey German
James White
Josh Mond
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy
Ex Machina
Alex Garland
Amy
Asif Kapadia
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
JJ Abrams
I’ll See You in My Dreams
Brett Haley
Beasts of No Nation
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Room
Lenny Abrahamson
The Mend
John Magary
Brand: A Second Coming
Ondi Timoner
It Follows
David Robert Mitchell
While We’re Young
Noah Baumbach
(T)ERROR
Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Christopher McQuarrie
The Big Short
Adam McKay
Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley
Timbuktu
Abderrahmane Sissako
’71
Yann Demange
Trainwreck
Judd Apatow
Sicario
Denis Villeneuve
The Revenant
Alejandro González Iñárritu
The New Girlfriend
François Ozon
Results
Andrew Bujalski
Dope
Rick Famuyiwa
Tangerine
Sean Baker