Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: 50 Best Albums of 2020
Alan Sepinwall: Uproxx: 21 Best TV Shows of 2016
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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City of a Thousand Gates
1. Top 10 Books of 2021: Michael Silverblatt: KCRW

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2020 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
Top 20 Albums of 2025 Spectrum Culture
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay
Open Water Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
Anora Sean Baker
Weapons Zach Cregger
first half of Melancholia Lars von Trier
Lonely People with Power Deafheaven
All Fours Miranda July
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Le Havre Aki Kaurismäki
Hallow Road Babak Anvari

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