Year-End Lists

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

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Brendan Menapace: Esquire: The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025
Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: Top 11 Films of 2012
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BANGS

by Jason Moran

Appears on two lists

Top 21 Albums of 2017: Nate Chinen: NPR: NPR Music

The Best Albums of 2017: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Brendan Menapace · Esquire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sour Soul BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Hotel by the River Hong Sang-soo
Trifle Lone Taxidermist
Paddington 2 Paul King
Cowboy Carter Beyoncé
Jubilee Japanese Breakfast
The Year of Hibernation Youth Lagoon
A Fever Dream Everything Everything
Notu_Uronlineu DVA
Keeping the House Tice Cin
Dream On Ital
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives

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