Year-End Lists

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

Movies
The Avengers - Joss Whedon

The Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club: Tasha Robinson

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

The Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club: Keith Phipps

The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club: Nathan Rabin

The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club: Scott Tobias

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

Top 50 Films of 2012 IndieWire Poll

Amour - Michael Haneke

Top 10+ Films of 2012 Los Angeles Times: Kenneth Turan

The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson

25 Best Films of 2012 L Magazine

Top 11 Films of 2012 New York Times: Stephen Holden

Amour - Michael Haneke

Top 36 Movies of 2012 New York Times: Manohla Dargis

Amour - Michael Haneke

25 Favorite Films of 2012 New York Times: A.O. Scott

25 Best Films of 2012 Slant

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

10 Best Movies of 2012 IndieWire: Eric Kohn

12 Best Films of 2012 Artforum: J Hoberman

Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson

27 Best Movies of 2012 New Yorker: Richard Brody

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

25 Best Films of 2012 David Ehrlich

10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

10 Best Movies of 2012 Entertainment Weekly: Lisa Schwarzbaum

10 Best Movies of 2012 Entertainment Weekly: Owen Gleiberman

Amour - Michael Haneke

10 Best Films of 2012 Tom Shone

The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson

Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound Poll

10 Best Movies of 2012 Time: Richard Corliss

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

30+ Best Movies of 2012 HuffPost

Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg

Top 10 Films of 2012 Artforum: Amy Taubin

Zero Dark Thirty - Kathryn Bigelow

Top Ten Movies of 2012 New York: David Edelstein

The Deep Blue Sea - Terence Davies

10 Best Films of 2012 Artforum: John Waters

Holy Motors - Leos Carax

Top Ten Films of 2012 Cahiers du Cinéma

20 Best Films of 2011 Skandies

This is Not a Film - Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope

Favorite Films of 2011 San Francisco Bay Guardian: Dennis Harvey

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Top 10 Films of 2011 Philadelphia Weekly: Sean Burns

House of Pleasures - Bertrand Bonello

Top Ten Films of 2011 Philadelphia Weekly: Matt Prigge

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Top 20 Films of 2011 Empire

10 Best Films of 2011 Reverse Shot

20 Best Films of 2011 Les Inrocks

Drive - Nicolas Winding Refn

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2011 Marya E. Gates

Of Gods and Men - Xavier Beauvois

10 Best Films of 2011 Chicago Reader: J.R. Jones

Aurora - Cristi Puiu

20 Best Films of 2011 Chicago Reader: Ben Sachs

Hugo - Martin Scorsese

Top Movies of 2011 Boston Globe: Ty Burr

Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan

Top Movies of 2011 Boston Globe: Wesley Morris

10 Best Movies of 2011 IFC: Matt Singer

The Trip - Michael Winterbottom

15 Best Movies of 2011 Nerve

Top 10 Films of 2011 Nick Pinkerton

Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami

Top Films of 2011 Fandor

Poetry - Lee Chang-dong

Top 9 1/2 Films of 2011 Fandor: Alejandro Adams

A Brighter Summer Day - Edward Yang

Favorite Films of 2011 Village Voice Film Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum

Margaret - Kenneth Lonergan

Best Films of 2011 Village Voice: Karina Longworth

Best Films of 2011 Village Voice Film Poll

A Dangerous Method - David Cronenberg

Personal Best Films of 2011 Village Voice: J Hoberman