Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2018
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- Non-Fiction 2024: Women's Prize
- The 20 Best Books of 2023: New Statesman

Trending Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Trifle Lone Taxidermist
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
Blackstar David Bowie
DX Friendzone
Earthling Eddie Vedder
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
A Psalm for Emily Salvi Nerina Pallot
Elixa Th Blisks
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives
Sour Soul BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah
Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow

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