Year-End Lists

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

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Michael Sicinski: Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 10 Best Films of 2021 CBS News
The 10 Best Films of 2020 CBS News
The 10 Best Films of 2019 CBS News
Best Movies of 2018 CBS News
The 10 Best Films of 2017 CBS News
The 10 Best Films of 2016 CBS News
The 20 Best Films of 2015 CBS News

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall

Trending Works

Bone Valley
Interview with the Vampire
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
A Very English Scandal
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin

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