Year-End Lists

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

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IndieWire: Top 50 Films of 2015
Carl Wilson: Slate: The 12 Best Albums of 2024
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Swimming in Light

by Mike Majkowski

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100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
50 Best Released Films of 2011 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 12 Best Albums of 2024 Carl Wilson · Slate
Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Reading the Waves Lidia Yuknavitch
Brat Charli XCX
Ready Player One Steven Spielberg
Forged Prescriptions Tony O’Neill
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener
The Errors Tour Brian Alan Ellis
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Good Place
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki
Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson
The Squimbop Condition David Leo Rice
Cartoons Kit Schluter

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