Year-End Lists

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

2015
Dark Energy - Jlin

Top 50 Albums of 2015 The Wire

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

25 Best Albums of 2015 Billboard

Carol - Todd Haynes

20 Best Films of 2015 Film Comment Poll

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

The 50 Best Albums of 2015 Treble

Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire Poll

Art Angels - Grimes

Top 20 Albums of 2015 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett

40 Favorite Albums of 2015 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

Chi-Raq - Spike Lee

Top 10 Films of 2015 LA Weekly: Amy Nicholson

I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty

Top 10 Albums of 2015 Observer: Kitty Empire

Top 10 Films of 2015 Observer: Mark Kermode

Cemetery of Splendor - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Top 20 Films of 2015 Les Inrocks

Chi-Raq - Spike Lee

30 Best Movies of 2015 New Yorker: Richard Brody

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Best Music of 2015 Flood

Goon - Tobias Jesso Jr.

100 Best Albums of 2015 Les Inrocks

50 Best Films of 2015 Slant

Brooklyn - John Crowley

14 Best Films of 2015 Los Angeles Times: Kenneth Turan

66 Best Films of 2015 IndieWire

55 Best Albums of 2015 AllMusic

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

25 Best Albums of 2015 Slant

Brooklyn - John Crowley

20 Best Movies of 2015 Time Out New York: Joshua Rothkopf

Timbuktu - Abderrahmane Sissako

20 Best Movies of 2015 New York Times: A.O. Scott

Carol - Todd Haynes

18 Best Movies of 2015 New York Times: Stephen Holden

Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller

37 Best Movies of 2015 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

Spotlight - Tom McCarthy

29 Best Films of 2015 Washington Post: Ann Hornaday