Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Happy Birthday

by Sneaks

Appears on two lists

Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks

Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade

Trending Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

A Psalm for Emily Salvi Nerina Pallot
Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
Earthling Eddie Vedder
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
Trifle Lone Taxidermist
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives
Synonyms Nadav Lapid
Blackstar David Bowie
DX Friendzone
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Sour Soul BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
Burning Lee Chang-dong

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