Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The Paranoid Style

The Interrogator
For Executive Meeting
1. Dean's List 2022: Robert Christgau
A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life
1. Dean's List 2019: Robert Christgau
Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall + 3
1. Dean's List 2018: Robert Christgau
Underworld USA
1. Dean's List 2017: Robert Christgau

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Beginners Mike Mills
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Looper Rian Johnson
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
From Ground Zero
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Civil War Alex Garland
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Monkey Man Dev Patel
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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