Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Highlights

2016
All Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry
Elle - Paul Verhoeven

Best Movies of 2016 La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

Top 20 Movies of 2016 Time: Stephanie Zacharek

5 Best Films of 2016 Sight & Sound Poll: Nicole Brenez

Everybody Wants Some!! - Richard Linklater

25 Best Films of 2016 Little White Lies

Embrace of the Serpent - Ciro Guerra

The Best Films of 2016 Chicago Reader: J.R. Jones

Top Ten Films of 2016 Chicago Reader: Leah Pickett

Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

Top 10 Films of 2016 Village Voice Film Poll: Scott Tobias

Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade

Top Ten Films of 2016 Cahiers du Cinéma

My Golden Days - Arnaud Desplechin

10 Favorite Films of 2016 Darren Hughes

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

Top 50 Films of 2016 Village Voice Film Poll

The Fits - Anna Rose Holmer

20 Best Movies of 2016 Village Voice: Bilge Ebiri

Cemetery of Splendor - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

15 Favorite Films of 2016 Dennis Cooper

Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

Best Movies of 2016 Time Out New York: Joshua Rothkopf

Arrival - Denis Villeneuve

35 Best Movies of 2016 Atlantic: Christopher Orr

Paterson - Jim Jarmusch

Top 10 Films of 2016 IndieWire Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

The Best Films of 2016 A.V. Club: Katie Rife

La La Land - Damien Chazelle

The Best Films of 2016 A.V. Club: Jesse Hassenger

Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

The Best Films of 2016 A.V. Club: A.A. Dowd

Toni Erdmann - Maren Ade

The Best Films of 2016 A.V. Club: Mike D’Angelo

Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

20 Best Films of 2016 A.V. Club

Elle - Paul Verhoeven

The Best Films of 2016 A.V. Club: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

Top 50 Films of 2016 IndieWire Poll

O.J.: Made in America - Ezra Edelman

The 25 Best Movies of 2016 Esquire: Nick Schager

Manchester by the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan

Top Ten Films of 2016 RogerEbert.com: Nick Allen

Recent Lists

By Year

By Category

Trending Works

Archive

About

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