Year-End Lists

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

Living Torch - Kali Malone

Tone Glow: Our Favorite Albums, 2022

Hellfire - black midi

GCN: Steve Erickson: The Best Music of 2022

Neptune Frost - Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman

GCN: Steve Erickson: Top Films of 2022

¡Ay! - Lucrecia Dalt

Sasha Frere-Jones: 2022 in Music

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Wired: Jason Parham: The 12 Best Albums of 2022

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Good Morning America: Peter Travers: The 10 Best Movies of 2022

Ugly Season - Perfume Genius

Autostraddle: Julie Gentile: Eight of the Best Queer Albums of 2022

Hit the Road - Panah Panahi

Paste: The 50 Best Movies of 2022

Saint Omer - Alice Diop

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Films of 2022

Painless - Nilüfer Yanya

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Albums of 2022

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos: Best Music of 2022

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

Financial Times: Danny Leigh: Best Films of 2022

Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv

Wired: The 12 Best Books of 2022

I Walked With You A Ways - Plains

No Depression: Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2022

Weather Alive - Beth Orton

Spectrum Culture: Top 20 Albums of 2022

Top Gun: Maverick - Joseph Kosinski

Uproxx: The Best Movies Of 2022

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Clash: Albums Of The Year 2022

Saint Omer - Alice Diop

Jessica Kiang: Top 50 Movies of 2022

De todas las flores - Natalia Lafourcade

The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022

Body Work - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

Electric Lit: Favorite Novels of 2022

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency - Chen Chen

Electric Lit: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022

Alive at the End of the World - Saeed Jones

Book Riot: Connie Pan: 10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022

The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh

Boston.com: Kevin Slane: The Best Movies of 2022

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2022

Afterlives - Abdulrazak Gurnah

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2022

Aftersun - Charlotte Wells

Filmspotting: Josh Larsen: Top 10 Films of 2022

Aftersun - Charlotte Wells

Filmspotting: Adam Kempenaar: Top 10 Films of 2022

Midnights - Taylor Swift

Albumism: The 100 Best Albums of 2022

Saint Omer - Alice Diop

Caitlin Quinlan: Best Films of 2022

Kimi - Steven Soderbergh

Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips: The Top 10 Best Movies of 2022

Trust - Hernan Diaz

New Yorker: The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022

We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole

New Yorker: The Best Nonfiction of 2022

Nope - Jordan Peele

Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2022

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Hollywood Reporter: Mesfin Fekadu: The Best Albums of 2022

Severance

Boston.com: Kevin Slane: The Best TV Shows of 2022

The Bear

Guardian: The 50 Best TV Show of 2022

Top Gun: Maverick - Joseph Kosinski

Complex: Best Movies of 2022

A Room of My Own - Ioseb 'Soso' Bliadze

Sight & Sound Poll: Elena Lazic: Best Films of 2022

Muna - Muna

NPR Music: Marissa Lorusso: Top 10 Albums of 2022

Rumble Strip

New Yorker: Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2022

Normal Gossip

Vulture Podcast Survey: The Best Podcasts of 2022

Abbott Elementary

Atlantic: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2022

Saint Omer - Alice Diop

Sight & Sound Poll: Grace Barber-Plentie: The Best Films of 2022

The Forever Story - JID

Okayplayer: 22 Best Albums of 2022

The Overload - Yard Act

Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2022

Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2022

Instant Life - Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, Andrew Kim

Michael Sicinski: The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022