Year-End Lists

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

Movies
Boyhood - Richard Linklater

The 20 Best Movies of 2020 Time Out New York: Joshua Rothkopf

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson

25 Best Films of 2014 Little White Lies: David Ehrlich

Li’l Quinquin - Bruno Dumont

Top Ten Films of 2014 Cahiers du Cinéma

Boyhood - Richard Linklater

Top 20 Films of 2014 Sight & Sound Poll

10 Best Films of 2014 Artforum: John Waters

Stranger by the Lake - Alain Guiraudie

Top 15 Films of 2013 Cinema Scope

To The Wonder - Terrence Malick

13 Favorite Films of 2013 Dennis Cooper

Stranger by the Lake - Alain Guiraudie

20 Best Films of 2013 Les Inrocks

12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

Top 50 Films of 2013 IndieWire Poll

Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

20 Best Films of 2013 L Magazine

12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

Top 27 Movies of 2013 Grantland: Wesley Morris

Her - Spike Jonze

20 Best Films of 2013 The Dissolve

Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

Top 16 Films of 2013 Brian Darr

The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: Nick Schager

Leviathan - Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel

Top 10 Films of 2013 Michael Sicinski

The Punk Singer - Sini Anderson

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2013 Marya E. Gates

Top 10 Films of 2013 Sight & Sound Poll

To The Wonder - Terrence Malick

Best Films of 2013 Reverse Shot

Before Midnight - Richard Linklater

20 Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club

21 Best Movies of 2013 Slate: Dana Stevens

Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron

21 Favorite Movies of 2013 Village Voice: Stephanie Zacharek

Her - Spike Jonze

20 Best Films of 2013 Variety: Scott Foundas

Before Midnight - Richard Linklater

13 Best Films of 2013 New York Times: Stephen Holden

At Berkeley - Frederick Wiseman

Top Ten Movies of 2013 Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs

The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer

Top Ten Movies of 2013 Chicago Reader: J.R. Jones

Computer Chess - Andrew Bujalski

Top 15 Films of 2013 The Dissolve: Matt Singer

Top 15 Films of 2013 The Dissolve: Scott Tobias

12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

The Top 10 Films of 2013 Vanity Fair: Katey Rich

Nebraska - Alexander Payne

The Top 10 Films Of 2013 Vanity Fair: Richard Lawson

Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron

Top 10 Movies of 2013 Us Weekly: Mara Reinstein

Computer Chess - Andrew Bujalski

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

At Berkeley - Frederick Wiseman

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: Ben Kenigsberg

Frances Ha - Noah Baumbach

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: Mike D’Angelo

12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: Scott MacDonald

Upstream Color - Shane Carruth

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: Sam Adams

Her - Spike Jonze

The Best Films of 2013 A.V. Club: A.A. Dowd

Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen

Best Films of 2013 Village Voice Film Poll

12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

Best Movies of 2013 Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips

Top 10 Films of 2013 IndieWire Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum

50 Best Movies of 2013 Film Comment Poll

Her - Spike Jonze

Top Ten Movies of 2013 New York: David Edelstein

Her - Spike Jonze

25 Best Films of 2013 Slant

Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen

30 Top Films of 2013 Glenn Kenny

Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen

35 Favorite Films of 2013 New York Times: A.O. Scott

Top 39 Movies of 2013 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine

10 Best Films of 2013 Artforum: John Waters

Computer Chess - Andrew Bujalski

Top 11 Films of 2013 Movie City News: Miriam Bale

Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel & Ethan Coen

The Best Movies of 2013 ScreenCrush: Jordan Hoffman