Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
more

Boxed In

Melt
1. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar
Boxed In
1. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

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

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds