Year-End Lists

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

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Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Scott Ellsworth

The Ground Breaking
- Nonfiction 2021: National Book Award
- Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Big Time Angel Olsen
Too Much
U R HERE Honesty
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Adolescence
XXX Danny Brown

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