Year-End Lists

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

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Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. Best Books of 2011: Publishers Weekly
- 100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
A Very English Scandal
Maestro Bradley Cooper
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Interview with the Vampire
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
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