Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Vanity Fair: 21 Best Books of 2024
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Divers' Game
- The Best Books of 2019: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
Census
- Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
- Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
Favorite Albums of 2022 Steven Hyden · Uproxx
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2023 Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence
21 Best Books of 2024 Vanity Fair
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Jackass Forever Jeff Tremaine
The Price of Tea in China Boldy James & The Alchemist
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
thank u, next Ariana Grande
Il Buco Michelangelo Frammartino
Nope Jordan Peele
Pacifiction Albert Serra
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
Jimmy P. Arnaud Desplechin
World of Tomorrow Don Hertzfeldt
Juror #2 Clint Eastwood
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh

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