Year-End Lists

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

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The Best Records of 2024: Resident Advisor
Our 50 Favourite Records of 2024: Vinyl Factory

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
25 Best Films of 2025 A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2025 Under the Radar
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best TV Shows of 2021 Emily St. James · Vox
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Best Albums of 2015 Time
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
All That Glitters Orlando Whitfield
Electric Pet Shop Boys
EMPT MILE TEMPLIME
The Endless Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
Everything Makes Me Sick Sex Scenes
End Explosions in the Sky
Flow Gints Zilbalodis
Drive Nicolas Winding Refn
Is This Thing On? Bradley Cooper
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James
There's a Monster Behind the Door Gaëlle Bélem

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