Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Mal Devisa

Lists

50 Best Albums of 2016: Stereogum
Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Sly Thom Zimny
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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