Year-End Lists

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

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Laura Battle: Financial Times: Best Fiction of 2024
Eric Kohn: IndieWire: The Best Movies of 2020
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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City of Life and Death
- Best Films of 2011: Karina Longworth: Village Voice

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Fiction of 2024 Laura Battle · Financial Times
The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
25 Best Films of 2025 A.V. Club
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Hard Truths Mike Leigh
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
BREAD Sofi Tukker
Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985 Wakuénai (Curripaco)
Nope Jordan Peele
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
Weapons Zach Cregger
Testing A$AP Rocky
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Cool Like You Blossoms
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Chromatica Lady Gaga
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton

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